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	Qatif
		Qatif lies at the northern end of a large metropolitan and industrial area, with about 1.2 million inhabitants, where the other cities are Dammam, Khobar and Dhahran.
		The agriculture was modernized in the 1960's and Qatif is one of the largest food producers in the kingdom, yielding mainly dates, alfalfa, rice, fruits, and vegetables.
		Qatif is served by the King Fahd International Airport in Dhahran.
	i-cias.com /e.o/qatif.htm (210 words)

	Qatif - The Saudi Arabia Information Resource
		Qatif is an oasis city located in the north eastern part of the Kingdom, lying along the coast of the Arabian Gulf, some 20 kilometers north of Dammam.
		Qatif is the centre of the most important agricultural and fishing areas of the Kingdom.
		Qatif's inhabitants are mainly farmers, fishermen, and those engaged in some aspect of the oil industry.
	www.saudinf.com /main/a894.htm (149 words)

	Qatif - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Qatif (Arabic: القطيف‎ Al-Qaṭīf) is a historic, coastal oasis region located on the western shore of the Persian Gulf in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
		The Qatif coastline is rich with shrimps and many varieties of fish, espcially the safi, kan`ad, hamoor, shi`ri, badeh, and mayd varieties.
		Until 1521, Qatif belonged to the political entity known as the Province of Bahrain, along with Al-Hasa and the present-day Bahrain islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qatif (409 words)

	Qatif, Saudi Arabia
		An oasis city, Qatif is the center of one of the most important fishing and agricultural areas in the Kingdom.
		The Qatif area contains a population of 300,000 people scattered over distinct regions.
		Fishing is dominant: Qatif is the main supplier of fish to the Eastern Province.
	www.the-saudi.net /saudi-arabia/qatif/index.htm (188 words)

	Qatif - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Qatif (Arabic: القطيف Al-Qatif) is a historic coastal town and oasis located on the western shore of the Persian Gulf in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, extends from Ras Tanura and Jubail in the north to Dammam in the south.
		Qatif is famous for its dates and fish (has the largest fish market in the country and the gulf region).
		Qatif oasis and the nearby island of Tarut are some of the most interesting tourist and archeological sites in the Kingdom.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Al-Qatif (323 words)

	Hydrocarbons Technology - Qatif-Abu Sa'fah Fields Development
		The Qatif field is composed of north and south domes.
		Qatif GOSP-2 will gather gas and 200,000 barrels of crude per day and send it all to the central processing facility in the north, where the crude will be blended with 300,000bpd from the north dome.
		A critical component of the Qatif and Abu Sa'fah project is the expansion of the Berri Gas Plant.
	www.hydrocarbons-technology.com /projects/qatif (650 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Qatif
		Qatif (Arabic: القطيف al-QaTiif) is a historic coastal city and oasis located on the western shore of the Arabian/Persian Gulf in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, some 13km north of the port city of Dammam and southwest of major oil port Ras Tanura.
		Qatif is famous for its dates and fish.
		The agriculture was modernized in the 1960's and Qatif is one of the largest food producers in the kingdom, yielding mainly dates, alfalfa, rice, fruits, and vegetables.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Qatif (686 words)

	Lexington Herald-Leader \| 11/23/2006 \| Saudi Arabian justice rests on shaky rulings (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The story of the Girl of Qatif, as the alleged rape victim has been called by the media here, has triggered a rare debate about Saudi Arabia's legal system, in which judges have wide discretion in punishing a criminal, rules of evidence are shaky and sometimes no defense lawyers are present.
		In the case of the Girl of Qatif, she was sentenced to 90 lashes for being alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married -- a crime in this strictly segregated country -- at the time that she was allegedly attacked and raped by a group of other men.
		In the sleepy, Shiite village of al-Awwamiya on the outskirts of the eastern city of Qatif, the 19-year-old is struggling to forget the spring night that changed her life.
	www.kentucky.com /mld/heraldleader/news/world/16081275.htm (1091 words)

	Touristic Sites In Qatif
		Qatif extends from Ras Tanura and Jubail in the north to Dammam in the south.
		Qatif is 25 km from Dammam, the Eastern Providence capital, and is bounded by the Bayadh Desert to the north, the Dhahran expanse to the south, and the Arabian Gulf to the east.
		Qatif fishing port attracts catches from all ports of the Arabian Gulf.
	www.carltonalmoaibedhotel.com /qatif.htm (385 words)

	Qatif - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Qatif (Arabic: القطيف al-QaTiif) is a historic coastal city and oasis located on the western shore of the Arabian/Persian Gulf in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, some 13km north of the port city of Dammam and southwest of major oil port Ras Tanura.
		Qatif is famous for its dates and fish.
		Qatif oasis and the nearby island of Tarut are some of the most interesting tourist and archeological sites in the Kingdom.
	qatif.quickseek.com (266 words)

	Settlers mourn, but pledge to remain in Gaza \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		They were gunned down by two Palestinians as they drove through the corridor that links the Gush Qatif settlements with Israel, and their deaths became an eleventh-hour factor in the debate.
		Some of the simple bungalows were built while he was housing minister, and the slaughter of the Hatuel family will no doubt forever be associated with the defeat of his proposal to evacuate the settlements he once promoted.
		The housing in Qatif and the Palestinian cities could not be more different, but their way of mourning is similar.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,1208862,00.html (965 words)

	Saudis vote in historic elections - The Boston Globe
		QATIF, Saudi Arabia -- Men in eastern and southern Saudi Arabia turned out in the thousands yesterday, some waiting in line from dawn, to vote in municipal elections they expect to provide their first say in decision-making in this absolute monarchy.
		The night before the elections, Shi'ite men in Qatif spent hours going over their choices and arranged for wake-up calls so they would not oversleep, said Ibrahim al-Marhoun.
		Shi'ites are expected to sweep all five seats in the city of Qatif, where they form a majority, and half of the six seats in the mixed Al-Hasa area.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/03/04/saudis_vote_in_historic_elections (523 words)

	Journal Gazette \| 11/22/2006 \| Saudi rape victim penalty causes uproar
		AL-AWWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia – When the teenager went to the police a few months ago to report she was gang-raped by seven men, she never imagined the judge would punish her – and that she would be sentenced to more lashes than one of her alleged rapists received.
		The story of the Girl of Qatif, as the alleged rape victim has been called by the media, has triggered a rare debate about Saudi Arabia’s legal system, in which judges have wide discretion in punishing a criminal, rules of evidence are shaky and sometimes no defense lawyers are present.
		In the case of the Girl of Qatif, she was sentenced to 90 lashes for being alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married – a crime in this strictly segregated country – at the time that she was allegedly attacked and raped by a group of other men.
	www.fortwayne.com /mld/journalgazette/news/16073973.htm (771 words)

	Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Inaugurates Saudi Aramco Qatif Producing Plants
		Qatif, Saudi Arabia (PRWEB) December 28, 2004 -- His Royal Highness, Amir ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz Al-Saud, Crown Prince, First Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the National Guard, Sunday inaugurated Saudi Aramco’s Qatif Producing Plants mega-project.
		H.E. Al-Naimi explained that the Saudi petroleum industry is progressing in a steady and studied manner to sustain its leading effective role on the local and global level, in accordance with the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and the Crown Prince.
		The Qatif Producing Plants program marks another milestone among Saudi Aramco production facilities in that it is the first plant to be self-sufficient in power and steam, through the construction of an on-site co-generation plant.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2004/12/prwebxml191951.php (694 words)

	Qatif Field Development Inauguration to be Held Dec. 26
		Saudi Aramco President & CEO Abdallah S. Jum’ah noted that the Qatif Producing Plants program is one of the largest such increments ever built at one time and in one place in the oil industry.
		The Qatif Field, located north of Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in the Eastern Province city of Dhahran, amounts to more than 195 square miles of area, including northern and southern dome structures.
		The Qatif Producing Plants program marks another milestone among Saudi Aramco production facilities in that it is the first plant to be self-sufficient in providing its own power and steam from a turbine-powered, on-site cogeneration plant.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2004/12/prwebxml190269.php (604 words)

	HEMOGLOBIN H DISEASE IN THE AL-QATIF REGION OF SAUDI ARABIA
		Patients and Methods: All patients seen in Qatif Central Hospital between September 1988 and November 1990 with low red cell indices were screened for Hb H disease, and those found positive had clinical data compiled from their hospital records and analyzed.
		This paper seeks to confirm that the disease is not as rare as it was presumed to be, particularly in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
		Qatif Central Hospital was commissioned in 1988 as a referral hospital for the inhabitants who are ethnically homogenous and practise consanguineous marriages.
	www.kfshrc.edu.sa /annals/215_216/01-064r.htm (2331 words)

	CAUSE-SPECIFIC INFANT MORTALITY RATE IN QATIF AREA, EASTERN PROVINCE, SAUDI ARABIA:15(2)
		The main objectives of the present study were to: 1) determine the IMR for the Qatif area of Saudi Arabia, 2) determine major specific causes of infant death and 3) suggest strategies for reducing the impact of various causes of infant death on IMR in the Qatif area and Saudi Arabia as a whole.
		Qatif is one of the major local government areas of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
		The present figure of 20.9 in 1992 for Qatif suggests a continuing reduction in IMR in the Eastern Province when compared with the 1989 data.3 This may be partly due to the influence of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) which was started in Qatif Central Hospital in 1988.
	www.kfshrc.edu.sa /annals/152/94101ar.html (1585 words)

	Sample Chapter for Nakash, Y.: Reaching for Power: The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World.
		At the same time, the conquest of Hasa and Qatif is said to have opened a new page in the history of the Wahhabi movement, enabling Ibn Sa'ud to control the trade routes leading from the Persian Gulf coast to inner Arabia, and thereby securing the future of the country.
		His move on Hasa and Qatif is presented as holy war against Shi'i heretics, who cooperated with foreign imperialists to weaken Islam, and as a response to the sad plight of the people.
		In coping with this challenge, Shi'is claimed to be the indigenous populations of Bahrain, Hasa, and Qatif, pointing to the long history of sedentarization in the area as proof that their civilization was more enlightened than the brusque tribal culture of the Al Khalifa and the Al Sa'ud.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/s8127.html (8315 words)

	Gulf Oil & Gas News: New Vessel to Serve Offshore Wells
		The newly named Qatif is one of two such vessels being built for Saudi Aramco, and its naming indicates it is ready for delivery to the owner.
		The Qatif was built using approximately 1,320 tons of steel, 130 kilometers of electrical cables, 8,200 pieces of pipe with a total length of 18 km, and 3,200 square meters of ceiling and wall panels.
		The Qatif is en route to Ras Tanura, on a journey that will take it to Singapore, around Dondra Head and through the Hormuz Straits.
	www.gulfoilandgas.com /webpro1/MAIN/Mainnews.asp?id=614 (420 words)

	Saudi Shiites See Hope In an Invasion of Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: )
		QATIF, Saudi Arabia -- In the ruined expanse that was once the oldest section of this city, a new mosque towers over a field of rubble.
		Some 125 years ago, a local sheikh bought a 90.4 million-square-foot stretch of beachfront wedged between Qatif and the village of Awamiya and bequeathed it as a waqf, or communal endowment, to the Shiite villagers of Awamiya.
		In the last few years some restrictions on Shiites in Qatif were lifted or at least overlooked, including allowing limited construction of community and Shiite mosques, as well as the public celebration of Ashura rituals.
	www.sullivan-county.com /z/saudi_shiite.htm (3615 words)

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	www.vacationguy.com /search.php?keywords=Qatif (222 words)

	Rasheed's World: Saudi Shiites Fear Backlash If War Breaks Out With Iran
		Accounting for around 15 percent of the Saudi population, the Shiites have long been the target of religious edicts, or fatwas, declaring them to be kaffirs, or non-believers.
		This has led to long simmering tensions between the Shiites and Sunnis here, which came to a head when a similar Shiite procession was violently dispersed by Saudi security forces in Qatif during in the Islamic month of Muharram in 1980 which resulted in the death of 27 Shiites.
		But the fact that most of the freedoms they have now can be easily taken away from them by the Saudi government has many Shiites worried about the future and demanding that their rights be enshrined in law.
	rasheedsworld.blogspot.com /2007/02/saudi-shiites-fear-backlash-if-war.html (1329 words)

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		Qatif Wells from the Riddle of their Presence to the Secret of their Oblivion
		Between the palm trees and green plants that attach together to cover the sunlight, and near the Gulf Sea coast in Qatif oasis, a group of natural wellheads are located.
		In Qatif area there are more than 130 wellheads and most of them dried totally and some are about to dry.
	www.qatifoasis.com /artc.php?id=1198 (1159 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Al-Hasa: Outpost of Empire (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Title deeds were demanded, produced and copied into the great registry book along with a carefully calculated tax assessment; a copy would be made and sent back to the main land office in Istanbul for future reference and inclusion in the imperial budget.
		Bahrain was a mere 40 miles across shallow waters from Qatif, but its ruler had sent a delegation to Suleiman the Magnificent in 1534, after the conquest of Baghdad, promising allegiance and cooperation against the Portuguese.
		Murad, the ruler of Bahrain, took one glance at the cannon and muskets being landed and sent a courier boat flying downwind to Hormuz, calling in the Portuguese to defend his island.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/197405/al-hasa-outpost.of.empire.htm (3325 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Re-defiling reality (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For the sixth time in three and a half months, they were "closed" externally and internally and held hostage to the whims of the most powerful army in the region, together with its auxiliaries among Gaza's 6,000 or so Jewish settlers.
		With Gaza thus hermetically sealed, the settlers, especially those from Gush Qatif, were free and safe to exact their revenge.
		Overwhelmingly the enclosures are concentrated beside the lateral roads that connect Gush Qatif and Netzarim settlement to Israel proper or over terrain on which new roads could be laid, such as the land between the Egyptian border and the minuscule settlement of Morag next to Rafah.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/517/re1.htm (889 words)

	Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia
		Qatif (Arabic: القطيف al Kateef) is a coastal oasis located on the western bank of the Arabian Gulf and covering large area consisting of many villages and cities like Saihat, Safwa, Tarut Island and many other small towns such as Awamia.
		Qatif has become very famous in the oil industry recently, mainly due to the mega Qatif Project.
		The region of Qatif was settled more than 4,000 years ago.
	www.creekin.net /c6338-n161-al-qatif-saudi-arabia.html (83 words)

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