Morocco–Qatar relations humanitarian aid to Qatar, which had been banned from using the land, air and sea routes belonging to several of its neighboring countries. Qatar maintains an embassy in Morocco's capital city Rabat. Morocco has an embassy in Doha, Qatar. King Mohammed VI of Morocco, who assumed power in 1999, made his first official visit to Qatar in June 2002. Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani made his first visit to Morocco in October 2002. In July 2005, he traveled to Morocco for an official two-day visit. After Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani successfully deposed his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani in
The World Is What It Is in 1996. The biography has been extensively reviewed: the reviewers include Paul Theroux, who wrote an earlier book about Naipaul. The biography was selected by the editors of the "New York Times Book Review" as one of the "Times"' "10 Best Books of 2008". It won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, and the British literary award the Hawthornden Prize. The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in