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The 1948 Doha Fire That Burned the Pearling Archives

The 1948 Doha Fire That Burned the Pearling Archives

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In late 1948, a fire swept through the Al Bidda district of Doha, destroying the administrative records of Qatar's pearling industry. The blaze consumed ledgers, loan books, and ship registries that had documented centuries of Gulf pearling. For the Bedouin tribes and coastal families who had depended on the pearl banks, the fire was a final nail in a coffin already sealed by the Japanese cultured pearl collapse. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how the fire erased not just paper but an entire economic memory — and how the timing, coinciding with Qatar's first oil revenues, meant the loss was barely mourned. They trace the neglected archives of Hayr Shtayya and the Hayr Kharidah banks, the role of the nakhuda captains in maintaining oral records, and the political undercurrents of a fire that may have been convenient for those eager to forget the pearling past. Through the voices of elders interviewed in the 1970s by British anthropologists, they reconstruct the last pearl auction in Doha, the debts that lingered for decades, and the quiet disappearance of a way of life that had built the Al Thani state. #DohaFire1948 #QatarPearling #HayrShtayya #HayrKharidah #AlBidda #Nakhuda #PearlDiving #JapaneseCulturedPearl #SheikhAbdullahBinQasim #AlThani #GulfHistory #OralHistory #ArchivesLost #EconomicMemory #1940sQatar #MiddleEast #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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