Sheikh Tamim – The Muslim Times

Sheikh Tamim

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on June 9, 2017 ( Leave a comment )

This is the real story behind the economic crisis unfolding in Qatar

Only Shakespeare’s plays could come close to describing such treachery – the comedies, that is Robert Fisk @indyvoices The Qatar crisis proves two things: the continued infantilisation of the Arab states, and the total collapse of the Sunni Muslim unity supposedly created by Donald Trump’s preposterous attendance at the Saudi summit two weeks […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on June 29, 2013 ( 1 Comment )

If it’s like father, like son, Qatar’s Emir Tamim will certainly be no pushover – The nation he built is a flea which happily bites any great power that gets in its way

by Robert Fisk, The Independent Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani is nobody’s fool. The Emir of Qatar did not step down in favour of his son Tamim because of his health, although a gastric bypass operation had drastically reduced his weight. So much had his appearance changed – so much […]