Emir of Qatar Tours New Orleans to See Fruit of His $100 Million Donation

NEW ORLEANS

It was through that filter that the genial, burly emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, saw the unhealed landscape of the Lower Ninth Ward, touring the scarred lots in a police-guided caravan of luxury vans and cars as the few people out in the spring sunshine stared blankly back at the opaque windows. Open-mouthed astonishment registered on some of the faces at street level.

The emir did not get out to walk through the ruined neighborhood. … later telling students at Xavier University that