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		<title>Public policy by whim? Qatar University to teach in Arabic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar&#8217;s Supreme Education Council has announced that Arabic should be the official teaching language of Qatar University. This means that most courses in the Faculty of Law, International Studies, Mass Communication and the Faculty of Management, will need to be taught in Arabic from Fall 2012. Whatever you think about this decision, it is border-line [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5999&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Inside Story et al</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belated seasons greetings to all as well as a happy new year. Blog posting has been thin on the ground recently, which is most annoying. What can I say? I&#8217;ve been profoundly mugged by the realities of a new job and lament the loss of the days when I was only very busy. Still, I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5947&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Taliban and Qatar</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/01/04/the-taliban-and-qatar/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/01/04/the-taliban-and-qatar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Central Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of negotiations it has been announced that the Taliban will open a representative office in Qatar. Initially, Afghan President Karzai rejected Qatar as the location of the office and even removed the Afghan Ambassador from Qatar, accusing the Doha Government of not consulting the Afghan Government on the matter. Yet at the end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5939&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar announces elections for 2013</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/11/01/qatar-announces-elections-for-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Hamad Bin Khalifah Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in his annual speech to the Shura Council, has announced that Qatar will have elections for a legislative body in 2013. Though the full details of what this entails are not available at present, if this follows the Constitution, 30 of the seats will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5876&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Qataris in Libya: &#8217;100s in every region&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/10/26/qataris-in-libya-100s-in-every-region/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/10/26/qataris-in-libya-100s-in-every-region/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chief of Staff of the Qatar Armed forces, Major General Hamad Bin Ali Al Attiya, has confirmed for the first time that Qatar had &#8217;100s of Qataris on the ground [in Libya] in every region.&#8217; While this is something of an open secret having been written about for a long time now (x x), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5866&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blowback for Qatar</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/10/25/blowback-for-qatar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moussa Koussa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At some stage the adulation and praise that Qatar received was always going to give way to some grumblings of one flavor or another. Initially, Qatar was praised ad nauseum for their actions: First Arab state (second overall after France) to recognise the TNC Contributed 6 Mirage fighter jets to the NATO no fly zone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5852&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Qatar in Libya</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/10/02/on-qatar-in-libya/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/10/02/on-qatar-in-libya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been so horrendously busy of late that I&#8217;ve not even had time to publicize my latest article on Qatar in Foreign Affairs. Thus far it&#8217;s got a lot of good comments, so thanks to all. And a quick thanks to the editors too who made it even snappier.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5819&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gaddafi forces capture 17 UK, French and Qatari &#8216;advisers&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/09/19/gaddafi-forces-capture-17-uk-french-and-qatari-advisers/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/09/19/gaddafi-forces-capture-17-uk-french-and-qatari-advisers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters is reporting that Gaddafi loyalists have captured 17 mercenaries, as they describe them. Most are French but there are also some from the UK, Qatar and an unspecified Asian country, the initial report notes. These &#8216;mercenaries&#8217; are in fact &#8216;technical experts and consultative officers&#8217; aiding the rebels in their advance on the last pockets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5802&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect storm of a problematic article for Qatar</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/09/11/perfect-storm-of-a-problematic-article-for-qatar/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/09/11/perfect-storm-of-a-problematic-article-for-qatar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve noted before, I was taken-aback when Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 World Cup and the question of homosexuality still being illegal in Qatar was dredged up, mostly, I think, by the angry British press. In many years of studying Qatar and reading everything written on the topic, this issue had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5783&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar wage hikes: Et tu, Qatar?</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/09/07/qatar-wage-hikes-et-tu-qatar/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/09/07/qatar-wage-hikes-et-tu-qatar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar has raised the basic salary for Government employees by 60% and for Armed Forces employees by 120%. Pensions and social allowances have also been hiked up. Qataris have the Crown Prince, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to thank for this. It is disappointing to see Qatar follow the terrified GCC crowd on this topic. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5764&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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