After the Cabinet reshuffling at the beginning of this year, when many prominent representatives of the Al-Attiyah clan, the second most powerful after the House of Thani, were replaced with members of the ruling dynasty, some experts in...

One couldn't help but notice that the Persian Gulf monarchies have recently started sending their emissaries to Moscow and Sochi way too often. This statement is particularly true when we take a close look at the actions of...

Moscow seems to be turning into a sort of political Mecca to where various political leaders are coming to discuss international issues. This is especially true for Arab leaders, who have not simply been regularly...

As it has been reported, the leaders of the International Union of Muslim Scholars drafted an open letter, stating that they "share a positive attitude towards the Russian Federation, which supports the Arabs and Muslims today." Moreover, the letter...

The former Prime Minister of Qatar Hamad bin Jassim has been caught at the center of yet another scandal, but this time around the charges pressed against him imply something more serious than “mere” corruption. The British court has recently...

After ‘suffering’ a period of relative isolation and inaction, Qatar seems to have ‘win’ the necessary US and Arab support for playing the role of a ‘true’ ally of the US led geo-political ‘games’ in the Middle East. Notwithstanding the significance of the latest visit of...

In traditional frameworks of analysis of foreign policies and power potential of states, geography and ‘size’ of the states are given considerable importance. It is commonly held that ‘size’ of a state directly corresponds to its power. However, if ‘size’ alone could be...

On December 9, 2014 Doha (Qatar hosted the 35th annual summit of the Arabian monarchies within the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf. It was in jeopardy due to disagreements between Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain on the one hand and Qatar...

The one-day summit in Doha of member states comprising the GCC (Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf in addition to attracting the attention of many politicians, also identified new trends in the development of domestic and foreign policies of Arab...

Apparently, the Qatari sheikhs have no idea that Russia is not the Upper Volta, studded with missiles, as the United States once called us, but a great power, including in terms of economics, natural resources, oil and gas. And to think that under the current difficult...

The Qatari newspaper Al Raya which is close to the family of Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and expresses the official viewpoint of Qatar ran a story on December 1 under the headline "Syria: the seventh Muslim district of Russia" by Mahmud Zaaluk. The article offers a curious...

The failed US politics in the Ukraine who, under the threat of having its army destroyed and with an economy on the verge of collapse, was forced to negotiate a ceasefire with Novorussia, made Washington to...