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Instead of having to go through Qatar passport control I was taken to the Oryx Airport Hotel, and found that it would be my new home from Saturday until Monday. For the second year in a row, I was literally trapped in an airport.
Doha, Qatar's Hamad International Airport. Thomas Pallini/Insider
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