Be very careful about how much allowance they are giving you for housing, anything less than 10K QR (2800 USD) will not work. I would like to know since Safwany is so keen to help find housing if she knows of any places available for 7,000QR. That is a magic number with some organizations that provide an allowance.

Al Khor is 40Km from Doha (about a 40 min drive), small town, only thing is the RasGas compound and clubs, shopping, eating out, almost everything has to come to Doha if you are not in the compound.