By TOI Staff and Agencies - October 14, 2022
A Qatari sheikh who has become a media sensation in his home country after installing a gigantic stone replica of the World Cup soccer trophy outside his home, called Thursday for normalization with the Jewish state in an interview with Israeli media.
Hamad Al Suwaidi first found fame in the late 1980s as a race car driver. Since then he has also set up Qatar’s first peacock sanctuary, but it was the recent unveiling of a three-meter high, four-ton copy of the iconic Mondial cup that catapulted him back into the headlines recently.
Suwaidi, also an avid sculptor, commissioned the project to celebrate his country’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup next month, the first Middle Eastern country to do so.
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