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The Peninsula is an English language daily newspaper published from Doha, Qatar. [1] Its main competitors are the Gulf Times and the Qatar Tribune. [2] [3] History
Qatar, [a] officially the State of Qatar, [b] is a country in West Asia.It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf.
Dr. Khalid bin Mubarak Al Shafi (Arabic: الدكتور خالد بن مبارك آل شافي) is a Qatari columnist and the Editor In-chief of The Peninsula, [1] an English daily published from Qatar. He also teaches Media and Communication at Qatar University in the capacity of an Assistant Professor.
The administration reinforced Qatar’s status this year when it admitted the emirate to the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, allowing Qatari citizens to travel to the United States for up to 90 days ...
Qatar is a peninsula in the east of Arabia, bordering the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia, in a strategic location near major petroleum and natural gas deposits. The State of Qatar occupies 11,571 km 2 (4,468 sq mi) on a peninsula that extends approximately to 160 km (99 mi) north into the Persian Gulf from the Arabian Peninsula.
1860 map showing the location of Khor Al Adaid. The Qatari Peninsula fell under Ottoman control in late 1871 after Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, recognized as ruler of the peninsula, acquiesced control in exchange for protection from the Sheikhs of Bahrain and Abu Dhabi and agreed to fly the Ottoman flag at his palace.
In April 1913, the Ottomans agreed to a British request that they withdraw all their troops from Qatar. Ottoman presence in the peninsula ceased, when in August 1915, the Ottoman fort in Al Bidda was evacuated shortly after the start of World War I. [45] One year later, Qatar agreed to be a British protectorate with Doha as its official capital.
Herodotus, the Greek historian and traveler from the fifth century B.C., noted that the people of Qatar were Canaanites and skilled seafarers. [7]In the mid-first century A.D., Pliny the Elder referred to the inhabitants of the Qatar peninsula as the Catharrei and described them as nomads who continuously wandered to find water and suitable grazing lands.