Archival Journey through the Qatar Peninsula

Sue-Ann Harding is a Professor in Translation and Intercultural Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research investigates translation in diverse contexts, particularly in sites of conflict and narrative contestation. She is the author of Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege (Manchester University Press, 2012), has travelled widely, and lived and worked in Doha for almost five years.

• Prologue: Murwab.- Introduction.- PART I: MAPS.- 1. Claudius Ptolomaeus, ‘Sexta Asia Tabula’, 1478.- 2. Carsten Niebuhr, ‘Sinus Persicus’, 1765.- PART II: LITTORAL.- 3. William Vincent, The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean, 1807.- 4. G.B. Brucks, Memoir Descriptive of the Navigation of the Gulf of Persia, c.1830.- 5. R. Hughes Thomas, Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, 1856.- 6. W.G. Palgrave, Narrative of a Year’s Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 1865.- PART III: DESERT, SEA.- 7. Hermann Burchardt, ‘Ost-Arabien von Basra bis Maskat auf Grund eigener Reise’, 1906.- 8. J.G. Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia, 1915.- 9. The Arabian Mission: Quarterly Letters From the Field, 1899-1906.- 10. Handbook of Arabia, 1917.- 11. Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia, 1932.- PART IV: SKY.- 12. Coll 5/11 ‘Air Route to India: Arab Coast Route – Emergency Landing Ground at Qatar’: Royal Air Force Reconnaissance of Qatar, 9 May 1934.- PART V: METROPOLIS.- 13. Jette Bang and Klaus Ferdinand, Bedouins of Qatar, 1959.- 14. Nobody Gets Hurt Today.- Epilogue: Sheikh Faisal Bin Qasim Al Thani Museum.