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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.
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.
Qatar, the only peninsular country in the Persian Gulf on the larger peninsula, is home to the Arabic-language television station Al Jazeera and its English-language subsidiary Al Jazeera English. Kuwait, on the border with Iraq, is an important country strategically, forming one of the main staging grounds for coalition forces mounting the ...
Below is a list of newspapers published in Qatar. [1] Al Arab – Arabic daily; Al Raya – Arabic daily; Al Sharq – Arabic daily; Al Watan – Arabic daily; Lusail – Arabic daily; Gulf Times – English; The Peninsula – English; Qatar Chronicle – English; Qatar Tribune – English; Vartamanam – Malayalam daily; Gulf Madhyamam ...
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.
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.
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]
The MDS analysis placed Qatar within a cluster of populations from the upper Arabian Peninsula, including Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine, suggesting shared genetic affinities within this broad geographical area. Further analysis using phylogenetic trees and population structure analysis (STRUCTURE) corroborated these findings, consistently ...