Hamad Al-Thani has sent us another blast from the past with two aerial shots of Doha, taken almost at the same angle but more than 30 years apart, from 1980 and 2013.

Here’s a previous submission, of Qatar’s oldest gas station, in 1966 and now.

Thoughts?

Credit: Top photo courtesy of Sheraton Doha; second photo by Fadi Al-Assaad/Reuters.