Teen held over clock to move to Qatar for studies

A Muslim teenager arrested in the US for bringing to school a homemade clock that was mistaken for a bomb is moving to Qatar for studies, his family has said, a day after he met President Barack Obama.

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, a ninth-grader who became an Internet sensation after the incident, has accepted an offer from the Qatar Foundation to study at its Young Innovators Programme. “This means, that we, as a family, will relocate to Qatar where Ahmed will receive a full scholarship for secondary and undergraduate education,” his family said. 

Ahmed’s family said the foundation would fund his high school and undergraduate education. “I really enjoyed my time at Education City, where I met other kids like me who are part of the Young Innovators Program,” Ahmed said about time he spent in Qatar this month. “Qatar was a cool place to visit. I loved the city of Doha because it’s so modern. I saw so many amazing schools there, many of them campuses of famous American universities.