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Qatar: Pearl of the Future

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Qatar is minute in surface area, but enormous in ambition. Skyscrapers emerge from the desert. Bedouins barter their camels for powerful 4x4s, falconers equip their birds with electronic devices, and the camel jockeys are now robots.

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