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The Peninsula is published in all-colour broadsheet format and number of pages vary from 24 to 40. On weekdays they have 36 pages in the main section, which is divided into 24 pages on local and international news, 8 pages business news and 8 pages sports news.
The Gulf Times newspaper has been founded in 1978 as the first publication of the Gulf Publishing and Printing Company in the capital city of Qatar, Doha (or ad-Dawhah). [1] [2] It is one of three English language newspapers in the country (the others being The Peninsula [1995] and the Qatar Tribune [2006]).
There are currently seven newspapers in circulation in Qatar, four published in Arabic and three in English. [2] Qatar's first weekly newspaper, Gulf News, appeared in 1969. [5] Al Arab was the first post-independence newspaper to appear in Qatar, in 1972. [6] Gulf Times was the first English newspaper in Qatar [7] until the arrival of The ...
' The Island' or 'The Peninsula ') is a private-media conglomerate headquartered in Wadi Al Sail, Doha, [3] [4] funded in part by the government of Qatar. The network's flagship channels include Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English, which provide coverage of regional and international news, along with analysis, documentaries, and talk shows.
The publisher of the paper which is led by a member of the ruling family, Al Thani, Khalid bin Thani Al Thani, [4] also own the English daily The Peninsula and Arabic women's magazine Sayyidat Al Sharq. [5] [6] Al Sharq is based in Doha. [7] As of 2012 the editor and manager of Al Sharq was Abdul Latif Al Mahmoud. [6]
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.
Satellite imagery of the northern Qatar Peninsula. Map of the northern Qatar Peninsula in 1824 denoting the most important settlements, all of which currently fall within municipal boundaries. Al Shamal Municipality was established in July 1972 alongside Qatar's four other initial municipalities. [4]
Katara Cultural Village (Arabic: الحي الثقافي كتارا), also known simply as Katara (Arabic: كتارا), is a cultural and commercial complex in Doha, Qatar, located on the eastern coast between West Bay and the Pearl. It was soft-opened in October 2010 during the Doha Tribeca Film Festival. [1]