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		<title>The Genesis of Qatar&#8217;s Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/06/19/the-genesis-of-qatars-foreign-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/06/19/the-genesis-of-qatars-foreign-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Al-Jazeera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emir Tamim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar Egypt Investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar Egypt relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar Leadership changes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar LNG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar Suez Canal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar's LNG politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following article appeared in Sada, Carnegie Middle East&#8217;s super online journal under the title &#8216;Qatar&#8217;s Global Bargaining Chips&#8217;. &#8230; The fundamental thrust of Qatar’s foreign policy stems from two interrelated factors: the limitations of its location and the elite’s appreciation of how best to overcome these constraints. Historically, Qatar has always been a small power [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6366&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar and rule by its people</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/04/25/qatar-and-rule-by-its-people/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/04/25/qatar-and-rule-by-its-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy in Qatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education in Qatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar domestic policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar foreign policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article appeared on Muftah.org. __ It is no secret that Qatar is not a democracy. While municipal officials have been elected since 1999, increasingly small popular participation in these elections reflects a widespread belief that the work of these officials is mostly insignificant. Indeed, the reality is that a small handful of people in Qatar [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6347&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kuwait&#8217;s Self-Flagellation Continues</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/04/24/kuwaits-self-flagellation-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/04/24/kuwaits-self-flagellation-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Kuwait]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barrack sentenced]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuwait Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuwait parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuwait unrest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musallam Al Barrack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following article appeared on RUSI.ORG &#160; __ &#160; Kuwait&#8217;s fractious politics has once more transcended protest to violence as the authorities sought time and again to arrest the former Member of Parliament Musallam Al Barrack. In mid-April, Al Barack was sentenced to five years in jail for undermining the status of the Emir when at a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6342&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On KSA: The Knowns and the Unknowns</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/04/06/on-ksa-the-knowns-and-the-unknowns/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/04/06/on-ksa-the-knowns-and-the-unknowns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thegulfblog.com</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi knowns and unknowns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This article was published by YourMiddleEast last month. &#8230; In 2003 Donald Rumsfeld, the former US Defence Secretary, uttered his now infamous speech about what was and was not known about the link between Iraq and supplying terrorist groups with weapons of mass destruction. &#8220;there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6327&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Linguistic Composition of Iran</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/02/26/linguistic-composition-of-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/02/26/linguistic-composition-of-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran languages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Languages in Iran]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love a nice map. The only thing better than a nice map is a particularly informative nice map, like this one on arab dialects or the one below. . Hat tip to @blakehounshell for pointing out this map.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6316&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Prisoner X and the Dubai debacle</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/02/15/on-prisoner-x-and-the-dubai-debacle/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/02/15/on-prisoner-x-and-the-dubai-debacle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thegulfblog.com</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israeli-Palestinian Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Emirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Gulf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dubai assassination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mossad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prisoner x]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prisoner x assassination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Prisoner X case in Israel is interesting for a few reasons. Firstly, Bibi&#8217;s reaction to try to block Israeli papers from reporting on this incident smacks of the most pointless Mubarak-esque finger-in-the-dam mentality. We just do not live in that kind of world anymore. Instructing Israeli papers to ignore the incident as the story [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6305&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Qatar football debacle</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/02/07/another-qatar-football-debacle/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/02/07/another-qatar-football-debacle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2022 organisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2022 Qatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Football Qatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar 2022]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar World Cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports Qatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uruguay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the World and twice-running European football champions are in town and playing the Copa América Champions, it would be rude not to go along and watch teams stuffed with the world&#8217;s best players. As much as I was looking forward to last night&#8217;s showpiece there was always a certain cynical reticence expecting the organisation [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6283&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Qatar and Mali</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/02/03/on-qatar-and-mali/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/02/03/on-qatar-and-mali/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 06:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[North Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AQIM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MUJAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar Red Crescent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar supporting Islamists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An edited version of this article can be seen on RUSI.ORG &#8230; Claims that Qatar is supporting a range of Al Qaeda-affiliated groups in the Sahel are not new. In June 2012 the French satirical magazine Canard Enchaine quoted French Military intelligence sources asserting that Qatar was financially supporting various groups such as Al Qaeda [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6273&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A trip to the Kingdom</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/01/18/a-trip-to-the-kingdom/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2013/01/18/a-trip-to-the-kingdom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahrain Saudi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ottomans gay marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rentier state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riyadh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi energy demand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi oil]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at a conference to discuss the region in light of these ever so changing times. It&#8217;s always interesting to come to the Kingdom and even better when you&#8217;re here with leading academics and the most erudite and informed of Saudis. Some thoughts: - It&#8217;s been at least six [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6260&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Kuwait&#8217;s latest issues</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/12/05/on-kuwaits-latest-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/12/05/on-kuwaits-latest-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kuwait elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuwait opposition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuwait parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musallam Al Barrack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of quick thoughts on Kuwait: 1) Had the numbers of protesters continued to be in the range of the first major protest back in October then I think we would have to look very carefully at Kuwait as in a dangerous place. Yet this is not the case. Even on the occasion in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6250&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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