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Lusail National Day Festival in Lusail Boulevard
Lusail Boulevard hosts National Day programming each December timed to Qatar's 18 December holiday, which marks the 1878 unification of the peninsula's tribes under Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani. As Lusail is a newly built city, its celebration is best understood as one of several venues hosting Qatar's decentralized National Day activities rather than a long-established, separately documented festival.
Qatar's National Day marks a specific date, 18 December 1878, when Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani took over leadership of the Qatari peninsula from his father and began the work of binding scattered tribes and coastal towns into one political entity, partly by managing pressure from outside powers including the British.