Online classifieds site for buyers, dealers and sellers of antiques, automobiles, books, computers, real estate and more.is an Arab emirate in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the larger Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the Qatar transformed itself from a poor British protectorate noted mainly for pearling into an independent state with significant oil and natural gas revenues. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Qatari economy was crippled by a continuous siphoning off of petroleum revenues by the Amir, who had ruled the country since 1972. His son, the current AmirQatar resolved its longstanding border disputes with both Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. As of 2007