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There has always been a lot of talk surrounding Al Jazeera news channel, but lately, more talking has been done considering the channel’s big role in covering news from the Arab revolting streets. Obviously, the Qatar-based news channel has lots of...
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The Qatari regime, and its voice heard through al Jazeera (owned by the royal family), has supported the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt but has stayed silent if not...
made popular Mar 4 2011
Qatar defeated both Australia and the United States to host the 2022 World Cup, the first for the Middle East. In another first Russia will host 2018. And Brazil, yet...
made popular Dec 13 2010
Qatar defeated both Australia and the United States to host the 2022 World Cup, the first for the Middle East. In another first Russia will host 2018. And Brazil, yet...
made popular Dec 9 2010
The roughly quarter million U.S. diplomatic cables made public by Wikileaks has caused great embarrassment to Arab leaders and naturally the Arab media has bowed down....
made popular Nov 29 2010
Qatar’s longshot bid to host the World Cup in 2022 faces several obstacles familiar to small countries: Rival bidders have much better existing infrastructure...
made popular Sep 22 2010
The unspoken Zionist honeymoon.
Saudi Arabia and especially Qatar seek to have it both ways. In Arabic they toe the line: unapologetic support for the Palestinians...
made popular Aug 19 2010
The unspoken Zionist honeymoon.
Saudi Arabia and especially Qatar seek to have it both ways. In Arabic they toe the line: unapologetic support for the Palestinians...
made popular Aug 18 2010
It’s not easy to quit a job, but sometimes ones convictions are more important than the job itself, especially if you are trying to make a point. Five Al Jazeera...
made popular May 31 2010
Americans have two misconceptions of al Jazeera: Either they dismiss it as a fanatical, anti-American channel which exists to promote Bin Ladin or they believe it is...
made popular May 29 2010
For some reason (because it wants to endear itself to the U.S.), Qatar become the third Arab country to establish diplomatic relations with Israel a few years back....
made popular May 24 2010
For some reason (because it wants to endear itself to the U.S.), Qatar become the third Arab country to establish diplomatic relations with Israel a few years back....
made popular May 19 2010
In granting nationality to M.F. Husain, the Gulf state of Qatar has done what it always does best — providing refuge to those in trouble back home.
Whatever be the...
made popular Mar 1 2010
The news of hussain’s being given Qatar citizenship was not unexpected. Hounded by militant fanatics he was forced to go into exile.
I am sure at the age of 95 it...
made popular Mar 2 2010
Eminent artist 95 year old M.F. Husain “Picasso of India” who was hounded out of India because of his nude paintings of Hindu Goddesses has been offered...
made popular Feb 26 2010
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that Iran is becoming a military dictatorship, a new U.S. accusation in the midst of rising tensions with...
made popular Feb 16 2010
The doyen of American Islamic experts - retired historian Bernard Lewis - often likes to start his lectures to American audiences with a joke. And in his writings,...
made popular Jan 21 2010
Although the Qatari government would not win the award for most vile Arab government (Emir of Qatar is one of the region’s most progressive leaders and the royal...
made popular Jan 8 2010
The Qatari government is quite an schizophrenic institution. The Emir of Qatar is one of the region’s most progressive leader who has allowed for some degree of...
made popular Nov 23 2009
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The U.S. media will not notice and the U.S. government does not care - nor, in the case of the latter, should it. But Saudi Arabia - which is often outrageously...
made popular Nov 7 2009
I have long criticized Persian Gulf royals for be vapid, uneducated, sellouts, money-squanders and selfish. But every now and then there is one royal worthy of praise....
made popular Oct 16 2009
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al-Jazeera has to be among the most hated institutions by neo-conservatives and Zionists (sometimes one-and-the-same). al-Jazeera is a prominent...
made popular Oct 9 2009
I never understood how a person can express outrage when something inflicts him or people he cares about, but then display the same mistreatment to others without ever...
made popular Aug 14 2009
Israel’s favorite collaborator has decided he was the power to shut down media that he doesn’t like. The chief collaborator [and Holocaust denier, but Zionists...
made popular Jul 20 2009
Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani spoke on al-Jazeera recently and stated that an unidentified businessman sought to buy the popular Arabic-language news...
made popular Jun 26 2009
One of the most prominent feuds in the Middle East is between Saudi Arabia and the tiny natural gas-rich nation of Qatar. Saudi Arabia does not look to kindly on those...
made popular Apr 18 2009
Qatar Airways apparently names all its air crafts after places in Qatar. So, for instance, instead of an air craft being called 7456 [whatever] it is named after, say,...
made popular Mar 5 2009
By now most people have heard by the disgraced C.I.A. officer stationed in Algiers, Andrew Warren, who drugged and raped several women.
What is most interesting about...
made popular Feb 6 2009
I suggested before that there is a forming camp within the Arab group existing on its own, and has a basic regional extent reaches Iran. This new camp wants to impose...
made popular Jan 19 2009
It’s harsh competition, but Qatar manages to outdo Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt in being the new #1 Arab puppet government. This following headline says it all:...
made popular Dec 10 2008
The IMF is urging the international community not to let the current focus on the global financial crisis result in a decline in aid to the world’s most...
made popular Nov 29 2008
The Royal Kingdom of Qatar (which just means Arab country) headed by the monarch al-Thani has just opened a new Museum of Islamic Art that will house one of the...
made popular Nov 25 2008
A high-powered Lamborghini sports car was sent on a 6,500-mile (10,460-kilomtre) round-trip to Britain simply to have a service, sparking fury from environmentalists,...
made popular Aug 12 2008
As all of you are aware that Iraq is a country with many sectarian and ethnic groups. And in such countries it is very difficult to manage and administer the country...
made popular May 27 2008
Many of us think that the first war between the two countries was the first gulf war. And that is incorrect information. The history goes back even before the Persian...
made popular May 25 2008
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Emir of Qatar Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, left and his host Croatian President Stipe Mesic shake hands before talks at the Presidential Palace in Zagreb, Croatia, Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani is on an official two...
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