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Sebastian Castelier

Sebastian Castelier

九月 9, 2024

Migrant builders take a break while working at a construction site by the Corniche, in Doha, on Nov. 24, 2022, during the Qatar 2022 World Cup football tournament. — 2022 年 11 月 24 日，在卡塔尔 2022 年世界杯足球赛期间，移民建筑工人在多哈滨海路旁的建筑工地上工作时休息。 — CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP 通过盖蒂图片社

Workers clean up at the Villaggio shopping mall in Doha, May 29, 2012. Thirteen expatriate children were among those killed in Monday's fire at the Villaggio Mall in Doha's west end, including two-year-old triplets from New Zealand. Authorities have ordered an investigation into the blaze near a childcare area at the mall amid reports that security staff at the complex reacted slowly to the blaze and in chaotic fashion. Several at the complex told Reuters fire alarms did not go off or rang only dimly. REUT

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Elizabeth Dickinson

Elizabeth Dickinson

Afghan refugees

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Mustafa Sonmez

In Istanbul, reporting on economics

An Indian customer (L) at a foreign exchange outlet changes Indian rupees in Bangalore on August 24, 2013.

Gulf currencies pegged to dollar keep migrant workers’ families afloat

Sebastian Castelier

Sebastian Castelier

In Dubai, reporting on regional business

Nepalese migrant workers queue to receive official documents in order to leave Nepal from the Labor Department in Kathmandu on January 27, 2014. Nearly 200 Nepali migrant workers died in Qatar in 2013, figures that highlight the grim plight of laborers in the Gulf nation.

Work in Gulf means short-term gains, transient lifestyle

Sebastian Castelier

Sebastian Castelier

In Dubai, reporting on regional business