موقع حسن الجفيري

Assalaamu Alaikum!

I accept your invitation for involving myself to share the ideas and comments in the modernization of Qatar. Honestly, I’m very much happy to know about your imitativeness. I appreciate your effort and interest. And I shall pray Almighty to give you all strength and possibilities to do the same effectively. I shall try to coordinate when and where I’m in need, insha Allah!
Yours Sincerely,
Moosa Sahib
@+974 7770 3511

Moosa Sahib M.A.
moosasahib.ma@gmail.com

I wish all bright success on your efforts which you make to maintain our environment safe to live our next coming generations as well.

Jaseel Madayi
jaseelawasco@gmail.com

Greetings!

First of all, I am so delighted to know that there is someone like yourself who has a very deep concern about the environment. This now gave me an impression that there are still some Qataris who think straight about taking care of the environment. Being an environmentalist myself, I am so happy to know that there is this website like yours that tackles environmental issues, let alone the issues regarding these mangroves at different sites in Qatar. Let me add the one from Wakrah Beach were mangroves has been destroyed which used to be a beautiful scenery in the area as much as with its wildlife. As a regular resident of this country for over 15 years, I witnessed the gradual change in our surrounding and it is sad to see natural habitat for animals being destroyed, habitat that Qatar don’t have much. I just hope that government will do something to really make environmental issues a sincere project to focus with.
Thanks for your website, now I found someone else in Qatar who have the same advocacy.
– Roland

Roland
therolands@hotmail.com

By Salman Al-Khanji

 He sits every day at a different coffee shop in Doha. Stacks of the daily newspapers lay on the table waiting to be unfolded, marked, highlighted and cut up.  On the corner of the table are two sets of eyeglasses. Sipping espresso with three sweet and low, he quickly reads the newspaper to find the stories of the day. This is a story of a man who loves his country and it’s people. He is open minded and committed to helping the community. He is a businessman, a writer, a social environmental and a human rights activist. You will find him “the soldier” at any seminar, event and or social gatherings in Doha.  He is everywhere you turn.  He is Hassan Ibrahim Almulla Al Jefairi.

Al Jefairi was born in Brahat Al Jefairi, an area in the heart of Doha, al Musherib. He comes from a middle-class conservative family with strong values. His ancestors were seamen and sea traders.  His great grandfather was a famous naval captain named Ibrahim who commanded the  “Maqdim”. His grandfathers and father were the most influential men in his life. They had very strong personalities that came from their experience of the environment, which they lived in at that time.  At their time, they owned a shop, which was the center of political discussion. People from all around the area would sit freely expressing their political views with members of the Al Thani family and other locals.  This was an important factor in Al Jefairi’s life, which shaped his personality and left an imprint.  He describes himself as “Hassan Al Jefairi, the voice of democracy and the oxygen of freedom in Qatar.”  He is passionate about his work as a writer and activist.  He is referred by some ex-pats as “ the nightmare” because once you give him the microphone; he does not stop voicing his opinion. Despite this, Al Jefairi continues daily to advocates hot topics such as fighting for quality education and hiring qualified experienced native English speaker to teach in Qatari independent schools. He speaks about the domestic workers that are often subjected to abuse that in some cases amounts to slavery. “The labour law is not protecting them,” Al Jefairi says. Dan Hague, an American audiovisual expert and friend of Al Jefairi says, “At times it is a thankless position” fighting for human right. “Quite so fearless” it takes courage and persistence “ He went on to say “I never found anyone with that kind of courage to talk about those kind of issues.” Dan Hague met Al Jefairi through his son Fahed who was a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar studying  business administration.  Fahed was an active intelligent student in the community.

He was always asked to be the spokes person at youth seminars in Qatar and abroad.  Al Jefairi fight to advocate and voice his opinion became stronger when his son “Fahed” died in a car accident in 2005. This was the saddest day of Al Jefairi’s life when he received the news on the phone. According to Al Jefairi, he learned that his son was invited to a youth conference in Bahrain through a youth club, which taught radical and extreme ideas.  The death of his son changed the course of his life. It gave him the strength and courage to stand up and speak against what he saw as wrong. He wanted to improve the quality of life for the betterment of the Qatari people.

As a child growing up, he looked up to his father who taught him patient, bravery, and struggles of life’s road. When he complained of the bounty he had, his father would remind him of the blessings. He learned to appreciate the basic necessity of food and water because it was rare in the past.  Al Jefairi’s father told him how hard life was in those days.   People would kill each other over fresh water that was found in an area near Ras Al Khaima.  Al Jefairi talks much about Qatar’s past history to many ex-patriots to clear misconceptions about Qatari culture and traditions.  He explains that Qatar is not a new civilization but existed for hundreds of years. Qatar has always had an identity and culture.  Listening to Al Jefairi talk about Qatar’s past history, I see how proud he is to be a Qatari.  He loves the Qatari people.  He recalls his first day of school being dragged by one of his relative by his arm to the bus.  Frighten, he cried because he thought school was a place were bad things were taught.  Crying in a corner of the class room, the students began to sing “madrasatiy madrasatiy kall ma fiee ha Hassan “ my school my school everything is nice”. He heard his name Hassan and thought they were singing about him.  He stood up and said to the children and teacher  “ya Hassan it means good” “ I am Hassan” “ My name is Hassan”.  “They all laughed at me, but I stopped crying and since then I loved the school” This chorus made Al Jefairi like the school. He excelled in school and later in his youth became popular and the best tennis player and goalkeeper.

Al Jefairis loves to write about birds because as a child the pigeons liked him and love to play with him in the hot afternoons. They would often fly over him and form shade to protect him from the sun light. “Pigeons symbolize peace”, he said “and I am a man of peace”.

He studied in the Arab University in Beirut in 1970, and was frustrated when he compared the open society with the conservative.  He didn’t have the freedom to express himself in the past. He became active when democracy came to Qatar in 1996. Qatari’s were given the freedom of speech.  This would be the beginning of Al Jefairi true struggle to fight for truth and the rights of Qatari’s. While studying in the United Kingdom, he visited the courts, which helped him to learn how to speak in front of people.  He took drama courses as well, which helped him stand in front of an audience.

He is a funny man with a sense of humor.  When he studied in the UK. He explained how he invited his friends over at the end of the month when he was completely broke without any money. He would serve them bread sandwiches. It consisted of a piece of bread on the top and the bottom with the middle piece of bread dabbed with a bit of water. He giggled and smiled shrugging his shoulder. “That’s all I could afford to offer my friends”.

His favorite books are “Around the world in 80 days” and “Black beauty”. Around the world in 80 days reminded him of himself, a man of adventures.

When asked, where and when would want to live in at any time? He answered “Hasten’s in the 1970’s.” Because he knew the people and they love him.  Hague describes Al Jefairi as a friend who is there for you at a drop of a hat.  He further added “What more can you ask”

Al Jefairi believes he will never get older. He said, “If Al Jefairi is in ten events today, tomorrow you will see him in twenty.  ‘He will always be active until he dies”, he added. He often speaks of himself in the second person. He continues to say he would like to be remembered as Hassan Al Jefairi, a brave Qatari activist who is fighting for equal opportunities, freedom of speech, empowering women, for a cleaner environment and reducing the gap between the rich and poor. He wants all Qatar Foundation students to remember him when they wake up in the morning and see the Qatari sunshine upon their faces. He goes further saying, you can find him every morning if you concentrate on the morning light, whether dead or alive because “When I die my body will die but my soul “Hassan Al Jefairi spirit” will never die”.  “I am feeling younger everyday”! I am Hassan Al Jefairi.

Dear Hassan,

Eid Mubarak 

I am Salman. Margarita’s son.  I am studying Business at St Andrews University Scotland. The weather is cold but education is great.

I do not have Eidi ya “عيديه” for you but what I have is better.

Please find attached Al Jefairi’s Profile Story. I am sorry for not sending it earlier.

Hassan Al Jefariri The Qatari Patriot. Indeed you are.

Sincerely,

Salman Al-Khanji

Qatar Golf Association Member

Qatar Olympic Committee Member

P.O Box 8095 Doha-Qatar

Mobile: +974 – 5837314

Tel: +974 – 4804511

Dear Sir,

I am very much dissatisfied with the way that your Ministry kept silent when mangroves were destructed in the coast of Althakhira and Alkhor marine life was ruined as Government asked a contractor to destroy the mangroves and now varieties of fish vanish from Althakhira and Alkhor Waters. Fish, Shrimps and Turtles have disappeared as Mangroves were the breeding ground of the Fish species. Mangroves protected small Fish and a lot of birds friends of Hassan Aljefairi were gathering and playing happily between bushes and Mangroves. What Action had your Ministry of Environment take to protect Mangroves?

I regret to say that officials in your Ministry did not do their best to stop the destruction of Mangroves causing the disappearance of fish and temperature of the sea water to rise.

I myself went to Althakhira and Alkhor and spoke to the Qatari people there who assured me that they did not complain about having Mangroves there.

Your Ministry of Environment is held responsible towards Hassan Aljefairi and Qatari people for not moving strongly to stop the destruction of mangroves.

I wrote to you previously in Arabic to do something to stop them ruining   our marine life and threatened that varieties of Fish would vanish from our Qatari waters but it seems that you did not do the efforts that I expected from you.

Yours Faithfully,

Hassan Aljefairi

Qatari writer

www.hassanaljefairi.com

I wanted to make contact with you concerning last weeks Doha Green Sustainability Summit.

I appreciated your comments presented to the panel and would be interested to hear more of your thoughts on sustainable development.

Sincerely, Renee Richer

Renee Richer, PhD

Visiting assistant professor

Weill Cornell Medical College

rer2007@qatar-med.cornell.edu

I really appreciate your such great efforts in thinking about many such issues which are great assets of a country. Your brilliant ideas will bring many good and futuristic changes in this countries over all picture if followed. The things that you are talking about in your website actually can bring peace of mind to all people and take the country to many positive success in many fields.

It’s first time for me to go through your website and I have so good feelings that I can’t express it in words.

I pray to Allah to make you succeed in all your good plans and efforts that you are making for a better future of this country.

zahoor.ahmed@pssqatar.com

Dear Sir,

            We had suffered a lot in the past and now I want to inspire your staff and students about the valuable lessons of my grandfathers marine lifestyle and bring you the wisdom of my great grandfather, Ibrahim Aljefairi, the famous Qatari Noukhutha “captain” in the Qatari seas history.

            MY grandfathers used to earn their living from the marine environment, fishing and diving, but that was not an easy life as members of my family died from stone fish. My grandfathers used to walk through shallow water near the shores but sometimes they step on stonefish mistaken thinking they step on stones as these stonefish can change their own colour and can inject poison from their spines. Our grandfathers do not attack the stone fish and let them feed from shrimps and small fish, and walk away from them.

            My grandfathers had difficult time and now please help me to attach thousands of Qatari children to English curriculum schools like London, Debakey, Qatar Academy French, Shore bone, American and other English schools as our Qatari Government is rich and can afford to issue coupons for my people to learn. 

Yours Faithfully,

HASSAN I ALMULLA ALJEFAIRI,

Qatari Writer,

www.hassanaljefairi.com