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...As he set up a tent for his family of 12, Hamad Abu Rokba said they had first moved to Beit Lahia in the north then to Khan Younis in the south, before being forced to flee to Rafah....
...Qatar’s emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani watched the opening fixture of the tournament with the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman....
...Investcorp, which declined to comment, has invested in several Saudi family businesses, including gold and jewellery maker L’azurde, which was founded in 1992 by Abdulaziz Saleh al-Othaim....
...Churches dot the UAE landscape, and King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa of Bahrain officially marks Hanukkah every year — developments simply not possible under an Islamist regime....
...King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa The king, 68, took power after his father died in 1999 and immediately implemented reforms, including allowing activists and opposition figures to return from exile....
...roula.khalaf@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Qatar does not provide funding for terrorists / From Sheikh Saif Al-Thani, State of Qatar...
...Despite the Khalafs’ insistence that there was no such plan, a mob arrived one night and set fire to the family’s homes....
...The false claims sparked anger among local Muslim residents, who responded by torching the homes of the Coptic Christian Khalaf family in the middle of the night. “I was terrified....
...Roula Khalaf is the FT’s deputy editor Illustration by James Ferguson Letter in response to this article HBJ astonishes with what he does not say / From John Lichter...
...Sir, Nothing in Roula Khalaf’s Lunch with Sheikh Hamad Bin-Jaber al-Thani surprised me (Life & Arts, April 16)....
...The FT would like to clarify that this lunch took place before the holy month of Ramadan Roula Khalaf is the FT’s foreign editor Illustration by Luke Waller...
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...“Truce Declared”, “New Page Opened”, splashed regional newspapers, with pictures of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir, planting a kiss on the forehead of the Saudi ruler in Riyadh....
...“We would urge Mr Dyke to let the legal process take its course,” said Sheikh Hamad in a statement....
...“If they control Hadar, we as a minority on our side will be face to face with terrorists who can threaten us all the time,” says Hamad Awidat, a Druze journalist and broadcaster....
...And instead of enjoying the benefits of his country’s clout, the young Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani has been forced to manage the backlash....
...Additional reporting by Roula Khalaf and Peter Salisbury...
...Additional reporting by Anne-Sylvaine Chassany and Roula Khalaf...
...But Turki al-Hamad, a well-known Saudi liberal, argues that the clerics are ill-suited to the task....
...Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani was supposed to be a more flexible, consensual leader – or so thought his Gulf neighbours when he became emir of the small, ambitious and massively rich emirate in...
...If we could, we would kill theirs in return,” says Ali Khalaf Qassem, a 70-year-old man with cracked feet and drooping eyebrows....
...It is, however, precisely this state of affairs that Sheikh Hamad has sought to avoid....
...It is, however, precisely this state of affairs that Sheikh Hamad has wanted to avoid....
...But Ahmed Saleh, 44, the Sunni, is not so sure. “In these circumstances, maybe it would be better to have a Sunni homeland,” says Mr Saleh....
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