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		<title>The Gulf Union that Never Was</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 14:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article appeared on RUSI.org on 17 May 2012. ___ The leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council met on 14 May in Riyadh to discuss the formation of a new Gulf Union. This Union was to entail even closer relations between the states. In particular there were high expectations that Saudi Arabia and Bahrain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6076&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Disunion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 07:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article appeared in Foreign Policy magazine online on the 2nd May 2012. &#8230; The leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait) will meet in May to discuss creating a closer federal unit among the states. The idea of closer integration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6061&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Arab World&#8217;s Unlikely Leader: Qatar</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/03/14/the-arab-worlds-unlikely-leader-qatar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just written a policy piece on Qatar for the Project on Middle Eastern Democracy (POMED). It&#8217;s available as a PDF here and a summary here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6033&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Examining Qatari-Saudi Relations</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/02/28/examining-qatari-saudi-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; German newspaper Die Welt recently reported that Saudi Arabia held a meeting with fellow Gulf States to discuss what should be done to counter increasing Hezbollah activity &#8211; but it did not include Qatar in the discussions. The clear implication was that Saudi Arabia’s elite do not appear to trust their Qatari counterparts in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6015&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public policy by whim? Qatar University to teach in Arabic</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/02/06/public-policy-by-whim-qatar-university-to-teach-in-arabic/</link>
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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&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5999&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Inside Story et al</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/01/05/on-inside-story-et-al/</link>
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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&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5947&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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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&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5939&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;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>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/11/01/qatar-announces-elections-for-2013/#comments</comments>
		<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&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5876&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5866&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;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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		<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&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5852&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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