Originally Posted by pandaperth

Not a silly question at all
In fact when phoning to book, it is preferable to spoon-feed the agent with the exact dates and flights you want.

In terms of (a) validity and (b) whether AA will ticket, your itinerary appears fine to me: you transit DOH at the beginning and then have stopovers in the continent of Europe/Middle East at the end and you have no segments between Europe and the Middle East