
Qatar, a gas-powered Gulf state, has long punched well above its weight.
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Qatar, a gas-powered Gulf state, has long punched well above its weight.
Now, Doha – its capital city – has added a new ambition to its strategic road map: becoming the leading art hub of the Middle East.
Over the past decade, states across the Gulf have built mega museums and started new biennales and cultural collaborations as instruments of soft power and to diversify their economies away from oil and gas.