Al Corniche Waterfront

This guide to Al Corniche Waterfront in Doha starts in the 1970s, when dredgers found the bay barely two meters deep and began pumping sand and crushed oyster shell ashore to create six hundred thirty hectares of new land. It follows the shift from a pearling and dhow economy to oil money, the Dutch contractors hired to reshape the coastline, and the 1982 arrival of the Sheraton as the waterfront's first landmark. Listen for how the same dhows that once hauled pearls now carry a very different cargo across the bay.