Joaan bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Joaan bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani (Arabic: جوعان بن حمد بن خليفه ال ثاني ) is a close member of Royal House of Thani. He is the fifth son of former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and the third child of the Emir with his second wife, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al Missned. Sheikh Joaan Bin Hamad was educated at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, France. He was the Torch relay ambassador on the 2006 Asian Games in Doha. In May 2015, he was appointed president of the
The House of the Scorpion The book is not as long as Farmer would have liked because of its young adult audience. As "The House of the Scorpion" drew on so much of her childhood, Farmer found it difficult to write the sequel. The sequel, entitled "The Lord of Opium", was subsequently published on September 3, 2013. The story begins a few hours after the final events of the first book. The story is set in the country of Opium, a narrow strip of land between Mexico (now called Aztlán), and the United States, which is ruled by Matteo Alacrán, or El Patrón, an incredibly