He returned to Qatar once more as Director of the Seerah and Sunnah Center at Qatar University, a post he still occupies today.

File: Medieval horse armour. jpg | Medieval horse armour on display at Museum of Islamic Art, Doha in Qatar.

In 2006, the State of Qatar awarded Keppel Seghers Singapore, a subsidiary of Keppel Corporation to begin construction on a 275, 000 tonne / year Anaerobic Digestion and Composting Plant licensed by Kompogas Switzerland.

After previously denying that Harrods was for sale, Harrods was sold to Qatar Holdings, the sovereign wealth fund of the emirate of Qatar, on 10 May 2010.

When the Portuguese turned their attention to the Persian Gulf, Piri Reis occupied the Qatar peninsula and the island of Bahrain to deprive the Portuguese of suitable bases on the Arabian coast.

Countries with a coastline on the Persian Gulf are ( clockwise, from the north ): Iran, Oman ( exclave of Musandam ), United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar on a peninsula off the Saudi coast, Bahrain on an island, Kuwait and Iraq in the northwest.

Accordingly, Qatar declared independence as a separate entity and became the fully independent State of Qatar on September 3, 1971.

Mohammed bin Thani opposed Ottoman designs on Qatar, but his son, Jassim bin Mohammed, accepted Ottoman sovereignty in 1872.

Sir Percy Cox, the British representative, saw through the ploy and drew a line on the map separating the Qatar Peninsula from the mainland.

In 1936, Bahrain claimed rule over a group of islands, the largest of which is Hawar, on the west coast of Qatar because it had established a small military garrison there.

Bitter and angry over the loss of Az Zubarah, Hamad ibn Isa imposed a crushing embargo on trade and travel to Qatar.

Qatar became an independent state on September 3, 1971.

In 2001, the International Court of Justice gave Bahrain sovereignty over Hawar Islands while giving Qatar sovereignty over smaller disputed islands and the Zubarah region on mainland Qatar.

A massive sandstorm sweeping over the Persian Gulf state of Qatar as it races southward toward southeastern Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on February 15, 2004

Deliveries started in December 1997, and involved the buy back of the remaining 11 Mirage F1s by France that were later sold on to Spain., The current commander of the Qatar Emiri Air Force is Brigadier General Mubarak Mohammed Al Kumait Al Khayarin.

Qatar achieved full independence on 3 September 1971 in an atmosphere of cooperation with the United Kingdom, the United States of America and friendship with neighbouring states.

The Emir of Qatar since 1995, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, has lately been going on an expansive boost to promote Qatar as a foreign player.

In addition to revolutionising the free media in the Middle East and indeed the rest of the world, the Qatar funded Qatar Airways has gone on an aggressive expansion, which also competes with nearby Emirates Airline, to reach more destinations and serve more passengers.

Despite their proximity to Qatar ( Suwād al Janūbīyah is only 1. 4 km from the Qatari mainland at the peninsula of Ras Abruq, while Rubud Al Gharbiyah, the island closest to the main island of Bahrain, lies at a distance of 19. 7 km to it ), the islands belong to Bahrain but were the subject of a dispute between Bahrain and Qatar.

The Ottomans officially renounced sovereignty over Qatar in 1913, and in 1916 the new ruler, Jassim bin Mohammed's son, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, signed a treaty with Britain bringing the peninsula into the trucial system.

Qatar is a peninsula in the east of Arabia, bordering the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia, in a strategic location near major petroleum deposits.

Saudi Arabia's eastern boundary follows the Persian Gulf from Ras ' al Khafji to the peninsula of Qatar, whose border with Saudi Arabia was determined in 1965.

Qatar, a small peninsula in the Persian Gulf on the larger peninsula, is home of the famous Arabic-language television station Al Jazeera and its English-language subsidiary Al Jazeera English.

The Gulf of Bahrain is an inlet of the Persian Gulf on the east coast of Saudi Arabia, separated from the main body of water by the peninsula of Qatar.

Zubarah ( also Al Zubarah or Az Zubarah ) () is a ruined and deserted town located on the north western coast of the Qatar peninsula in the Madinat ash Shamal municipality, about 105 km from the Qatari capital of Doha.

The formal Area of Responsibility ( AOR ) extends to 20 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates ( UAE ), Uzbekistan, and Yemen.

Species are proposed for inclusion in or deletion from the Appendices at meetings of the Conference of the Parties ( CoP ), which are held approximately once every three years, the most recent of which ( CoP 15 ) was held in Qatar in March 2010.

Carnegie Mellon Qatar currently has approximately 300 students, 60 faculty and postdoctoral researchers, and 90 staff.

The question of Az Zubarah became moot in 1878, however, when Jassim bin Mohammed and his brother Ahmed bin Muhammed destroyed the town as punishment for the piracy of the Naim, a tribe that resided in the north of Qatar but was loyal to the sheikh of Bahrain.

The peninsula's constituent countries are ( clockwise north to south ) Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) on the east, Oman on the southeast, Yemen on the south and Saudi Arabia at the center.

The other islands of significance include Nabih Saleh, which is northwest of Sitrah ; Jidda Island and Umm as Sabaan, to the north of Umm an Nasan ; and a group of islands, the largest of which is Hawar, near the coast of Qatar.

They are found from the Arabian Peninsula in the countries of Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman, west across southern Asia in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, north to Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to Mongolia and China.

They had come from a wide variety of Middle Eastern and north African countries including Yemen, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Tunisia, Morocco, and Iran.

An alternative theory behind the brand name links the drink to the town of Mirinda in the north of Qatar.

New Hampshire Avenue NW ( north of Dupont Circle ) is home to the embassies of Argentina, Belarus, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Grenada, Jamaica, Montenegro, Namibia, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Slovenia, and Zimbabwe ; the embassies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar are also located on New Hampshire, but farther south, near the Watergate complex.

The first planned Palestinian city named Rawabi was planned to be built north of Ramallah, with the help of funds from Qatar.

A world-scale ( a day ) GTL plant in Qatar went into production in 2011.

With the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into eastern Arabia in 1871, Qatar became vulnerable to occupation.

* Increasing the amount of international airlines serving airport ( are apparently looking into: China Southern Airlines, Thai Airways International, Garuda Indonesia, Vietnam Airlines, AirAsia X, Scoot Airlines, Emirates 4 Weekly services 1 November, Daily from 1 February 2013, Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways as well as some United States operators )

Bordering the Persian Gulf, there is an extension into Qatar and, further east, the region covers almost all of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ).

Kewell also scored the third goal against Qatar in Australia's 3 – 1 win to put them into the final qualification round.

One of them, the first secretary of the Russian Embassy in Qatar, Aleksandr Fetisov, was released in March due to his diplomatic status and the remaining two, the GRU agents Anatoly Yablochkov ( also known as Belashkov ) and Vasily Pugachyov ( sometimes misspelled as Bogachyov ), were charged with the assassination of Yandarbiyev, an assassination attempt of his son Daud Yandarbiyev, and smuggling weapons into Qatar.

While the 34th Bomb Squadron deployed to Diego Garcia as the B-1 component of the 28th Air Expeditionary Wing, the wing sent a Base Operations Support package to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, to transform the bare base into a fully functional airfield for large-scale combat operations.

It has been accidentally introduced into many other parts of the world and has established itself in Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Puerto Rico ( introduced ), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, USA ( introduced ) and Virgin Islands ( possibly extinct ) and Nice ( S. France ).

Then they defeated Al Sauds and forced them to go into voluntary exile, first in Bahrain, next to Qatar and finally to Kuwait.

According to the U. S. Trade Representative website, Zoellick completed negotiations to bring China and Taiwan into the World Trade Organization ( WTO ); developed a strategy to launch new global trade negotiations at the WTO meeting in Doha, Qatar ; shepherded Congressional action on the Jordan Free Trade Agreement and the Vietnam Trade Agreement ; and worked with Congress to pass the Trade Act of 2002, which included new Trade Promotion Authority.

The International Court of Justice has provided some insight into the determination of the legal status of a document in the landmark case of Qatar v. Bahrain, 1 July 1994.

Taking that into consideration, and that he represented Qatar in the World Cup qualifier against Iraq on March 26, Qatar breached the FIFA rules, and Qatar could have lost the 3 points they gained from the game against Iraq.

Following Dubai ’ s entrance into the United Arab Emirates, Qatar began issuing the Qatari riyal separate from Dubai on 19 May 1973.

On 11 September 2001, the Al Jazeera network used the PAS 9 to broadcast the tragedies occurring in New York into Qatar.

Qatar Foundation's community development initiatives fall into three categories-fostering a progressive society ; enhancing our cultural life and protecting Qatar ’ s heritage ; and addressing immediate social needs in the community.

Profits generated are shared by both parties, with Qatar Foundation's share being ploughed back into its core not-for-profit activities.

Daniilidou started 2003 by winning her second WTA title at the ASB Classic and reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open, results which saw her break into the top 20 for the first time, reaching a career high of No. 14 after the Qatar Telecom German Open.

However, Qatar Sports International reneged on the £ 6million sponsorship deal and $ 1million prize money and Edwards was consequently forced into bankruptcy and lost her home.

Through bilateral agreements and partnerships with other governments, and with offices in China, India, the United States and Qatar, the IDA seeks to facilitate the venturing of Singapore infocomm companies into the global market.