Doha didn’t feel like a city trying to impress me. It felt calm, confident, and incredibly welcoming — clean streets, green spaces, and a sense of hospitality that felt natural rather than staged.

Fall is here, the leaves are beginning to change colors, the air is not muggy, and it a good time for us to reflect on ourselves as to what kind of a person I have been over the last nine months.

The Christmas season affords us an opportunity to reflect upon, and perhaps act upon, the ideas, tenets or principles espoused by the birth of a baby called “the Prince of Peace.” Even though ...