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About Ghiras

Ghiras is a periodical magazine published by Qatar Charity. It is a knowledge platform that seeks to spread the culture of charitable work and introduce its literature through sound content, and to raise awareness of humanitarian and development issues. At the same time, it introduces Qatar Charity’s strategic directions, documents its achievements, contributions and experience, and expresses its vision for the future and its positions on humanitarian issues.

Two pages of Ghiras magazine on the story of Khadija from Mauritania and her love of photography
A childhood weighed down by the search for water, revived by giving, photographed by Mousa Sharbaji in Ghana
Ceremony honouring leading figures in civil service, labour and social affairs
Beyond aid: what people in developing countries want from charitable organisations
Ghiras magazine page on restoring and rehabilitating 1,500 damaged homes in Syria
Humanitarian scenes from the heart of the Cyclone Ditwah disaster

Main objectives

  • Introducing the culture of charitable work and its body of knowledge, highlighting its civilisational dimensions, helping to strengthen its values, and shedding light on humanitarian and development issues.
  • Introducing Qatar Charity and its strategic directions, its humanitarian and development contributions and its vision for the future, expressing its positions on humanitarian issues, and documenting its achievements.
  • Strengthening partnerships and cooperation with humanitarian organisations, donors and other bodies concerned with charitable and humanitarian work.

Languages

Arabic and English

Audience

  • Researchers and people interested in humanitarian, development and voluntary work
  • Local and international humanitarian, development and civil society organisations
  • Partners and donors
  • Individual givers
  • Other related bodies
  • The media
Cover of Ghiras magazine issue 29
Cover of Ghiras magazine issue 32 on humanitarian work and the AI revolution
Cover of Ghiras magazine issue 31 on the dangers of winter
Cover of Ghiras magazine issue 28 showing a child holding a Qatar 2022 World Cup ball
Cover of Ghiras magazine issue 30 showing two girls

Founding

The pilot issue of Ghiras magazine was published in 2011. Up to issue 32, the magazine was printed and also published as a PDF on the Qatar Charity website.

Digital transformation

To make the most of digital developments, Qatar Charity decided to create a website for the magazine from the first quarter of 2026, and the first version of the site was built.

The magazine’s digital transformation aims to:

  • Keep pace with digital transformation in general, and at Qatar Charity in particular.
  • Offer edited material that is closer to readers and easier to use, engage with and benefit from.
  • Write material that suits AI formats and is more visible in search engines, and in this way help build a positive image of Qatar Charity’s role and its humanitarian, development and awareness work.
  • Make it easier to reach reports and material that regularly document Qatar Charity’s work and achievements, and the international events it organises.

What the magazine publishes

  1. Knowledge, cultural and awareness content that introduces humanitarian work and its historical and contemporary literature, and sheds light on new humanitarian issues and the advocacy they call for.
  2. Material that introduces Qatar Charity, documents its achievements and records its experience.

This content takes the form of issue files, studies and articles, documentary reports and interviews, human stories and success stories, and other editorial formats.