Beards
I will be teaching Qatari college students, male and female. Someone told me if my hair got too long then some of the male students might hit on me. My hair is about five inches long-ish. I also have a beard. I am from the U.S. and am caucasian in my late forties. I don't want to create disrespect.
1) Does this even matter?
2) If I cut my hair short and shaved would it matter?
3) What is beard culture like in Qatar?
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Your appearance is your choice, as long as it doesn't cross the decency.
Nothing to be too concerned about, I thought. Just trim your mustache a bit if it hangs over your upper lips, keep your long hairs and beard neatly combed and you should be fine.
Beard is something common in the Arab countries, i don't see a problem in it
But i don't know about the long hair !!, but i think it doesn't matter (Unless you look like a rock star) :O)
No body touch you if you don't misbehave...
Don't even THINK in terms such as "male students" and "hitting on." Unless you are partial to jail and deportation.
Mandi
Yes, I'm not kidding. Read this:
http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/features/of-mustaches-and-men_9103
“You’ll never be able to pull it off,” he said, half-joking (but still, half-serious). “You’ll never be able to get any respect in that part of the world without a mustache.”
While it has faded from the ubiquity it once enjoyed among western elites, the mustache largely retains the prominence it has long enjoyed in the Arab World. Brandished by men ranging from Gulf royals and Baathist autocrats to civil servants and cab drivers, the mustache is hard to avoid in the region."
Is this serious?
I hate some of those long wirery beards here and even on the men they look bad as well