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What Happens When a City Built on Travel Stops Traveling

Plus: Dinner and a movie, for $812
Urs Fischer’s iconic Lamp/Bear at Hamad airport in Doha gets sad when he’s lonely.Photographer: Karim Jaafar/Getty Images

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It would be facile but not entirely untrue to say that the Gulf’s major airports are to international travel what the Strait of Hormuz is to the oil trade.