The Qataris and other Arabic nationalities form the majority of government officials and civil servants. The Americans and Europeans form the management, engineering and teaching professionals.
The construction industry, high-end retail, jeweleries and automobile showrooms tend to be supervised by Lebanese, Jordanians and Egyptians. (I may be prejudiced but Lebanese and Jordanian men and women seems to be preening their hair, clothes and accessories all the time.)
There are a sprinkling of Chinese, Japanese and Koreans who are here to build roads, bridges, highways, skyscrapers and petrol-chemical plants.
The Africans and Nepalese make up security guards and waiters positions.
Filipinos form the core of service, sales, F&B and technical staff. Even more than them are nationalities from the Indian sub-continent including Indians, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshi, Pakistanis and Nepalis who form the majority of IT, public transport, construction, cleaning and hard labour work force.
Seriously, without the Indians and Filipinos, the Middle East would not be a very happy nor hospitable place.
You're likely to make more friends in Qatar if you speak Tagalog, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali or Tamil than ever Arabic or English.
Even Qatar has a little India
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