Voices Through Walls

Qatar, Birth of a Nation
A history of the little known or understood Middle Eastern country of Qatar. Equally enjoyable as a non-fiction adventure story or, with its totally new insights into colonial and Middle East life, a work of serious social and historic study.

In recent years it has been largely overlooked how one of the worlds smallest but wealthiest nations, Qatar, has helped lift Britain out of double-dip recession and an early energy crisis. This handsomely repaid its one-time protector for preventing its own near slide into oblivion 70 years earlier.

Against a wider portrait of Middle East energy development, convoluted workings and lost opportunities amid an earlier British and Ottoman presence, an absorbing story unfolds. It tells how many cultures and nationalities worked together to lead a people stricken by hunger and disease along a rags to riches road to a new life of previously unimaginable wealth.

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