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Old Gulf Coast Days: Qatar

Old Gulf Coast Days: Qatar

Osborne, Christine
Osborne, Christine

Paperback

Series: Old Gulf Coast Days

Travel GeneralGeneral Middle EastGeneral Photography

ISBN10: 0992324041
ISBN13: 9780992324049
Publisher: Christine Osborne
Published: May 31 2018
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.50 Depth: 6.50
Language: English

The small Arab state of Qatar on the western shore of the Persian Gulf was a slow starter in development when compared with neighbours Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia. Although the country had enjoyed good revenue from oil since the mid-seventies, its ruler was reluctant to embrace change. As recently as 1975 capital Doha, had only a single first-class hotel and one bank and people still lived in goat-hair tents in the desert hinterland. When a huge off-shore natural gas field began production in 1989 a decision was taken to replace the old emir. The rise of Qatar following the assumption of power by his son, HH Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani in 1995 was meteoric. Not only in the streets of soaring skyscraper but in desert reclamation schemes, aviation and communications, notably Al-Jazeera an international 24-hour English-language news channel. The FIFA World Cup held in 2022 introduced the tiny nation to a worldwide audience of some 5 billion people. But this book is not an appraisal of Qatar's achievements. Rather it is a look back, via a unique set of photographs, at Old Gulf Coast days.

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