Surf Arab States » qatar http://surf-as.org news and developments in the arab states, in bite-sized weekly summaries Sun, 14 Jul 2013 14:30:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Arab States Weekly Review Feb 9th – 15th 2013 http://surf-as.org/2013/02/arab-states-weekly-review-feb-9th-15th-2013/ http://surf-as.org/2013/02/arab-states-weekly-review-feb-9th-15th-2013/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:36:42 +0000 admin http://surf-as.org/?p=391 The Syrian National Council announced that Qatar will hand it control of the Syrian embassy in Doha. Qatar was one of the first governments to recognise the group as the official representative of the Syrian people.

]]> http://surf-as.org/2013/02/arab-states-weekly-review-feb-9th-15th-2013/feed/ 0 Arab States Weekly Review 27th Nov – 3rd Dec 2010 http://surf-as.org/2010/12/arab-states-weekly-review-27th-nov-3rd-dec-2010/ http://surf-as.org/2010/12/arab-states-weekly-review-27th-nov-3rd-dec-2010/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:10:38 +0000 admin http://surf-as.org/?p=159 Egypt’s general election point to a landslide victory for the ruling National Democratic Party, amid reports of widespread irregularities at the ballot boxes. The Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition party, previously had 88 seats in the 518-strong parliament but did not win a single seat in the first round. It said it will boycott the second round.

Wikileaks has embarrassed several Arab leaders. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Lebanon’s prime minister Saad Hariri both urged the United States to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Leading figures in Qatar and Bahrain, who remain neutral in public, expressed deep hostility towards Iran in private.

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