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2006
The Asian Games are hosted in Doha - a coup for Qatar and the region as a whole. Oman pulls out
of the proposed single currency, a setback for greater GCC integration.
2007
The building boom across the Peninsula reaches its peak as multibillion dollar projects, just about
unthinkable elsewhere in the world, reach fruition in all countries of the Peninsula except Yemen.
2008
The global recession starts to bite in the Arabian Peninsula with catastrophic effect in Dubai by
2009. Qatar and Oman remain relatively unscathed.
2009
An escalation of civil war in Yemen makes regional headlines as the bombing of so-called Yemeni
rebels on Saudi Arabian territory threatens to destabilise an otherwise peaceful Peninsula.
2011
The Arab Spring erupts, leaving Bahrain in particular in turmoil. Peninsula governments crack down
on corruption and review their policies to quell the restiveness of local populations.
