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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa attend a press conference after their meeting that discussed the diplomatic situation with Qatar, in Cairo, Egypt July 5, 2017. REUTERS/Khaled Elfiqi/Pool

It’s Goodbye Qatar!

by Salman Al-dossary | Jul 6, 2017 | Opinion

The only surprise that didn’t happen on Wednesday was a positive Qatari response to Kuwaiti emir’s mediation that could have ended the current crisis. The negative response was nothing new; it was expected just like all other reactions that came from Qatar after...

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In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, left, talks to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince and Deputy Commander in Chief of the Emirates Armed Forces in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, June 2, 2017. (AP)

The ‘Quartet’ Studies Appropriate Measures to Qatar’s Response

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 4, 2017 | Middle East

Dammam – The four Arab countries boycotting Qatar have complied with the demand of Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al Sabah to grant Doha a 48-hour deadline to give its response to the list of 13 demands, which include cutting all ties with terrorist...

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Al-Jazeera journalists, Canadian Mohamed Fahmy (R) and Egyptian Baher Mohamed (C), both accused of supporting the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood in their coverage for the Qatari-owned broadcaster, sit in the defendants’ cage during their trial in the capital Cairo on August 29, 2015. The court sentenced Fahmy and Mohamed, along with Australian journalist Peter Greste who was tried in absentia after his deportation early this year, to three years in prison in a shock ruling following global demands for their acquittal. AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Al-Jazeera and the Muslim Brotherhood

by Eli Lake | Jun 25, 2017 | Opinion

In 2014, Mohamed Fahmy, the former Cairo bureau chief for the Qatar-funded television network began a 438-day sentence in an Egyptian prison on terrorism charges and practicing unlicensed journalism. Today Fahmy is preparing a lawsuit against his former employers. And...

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People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo

Twitter Briefly Suspends Al-Jazeera Arabic

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 17, 2017 | Middle East

Social media platform Twitter briefly suspended the account of Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera Arabic early Saturday. Al-Jazeera is known to be a strong backer of extremism and terrorism through broadcasts of videos belonging to terrorist organizations in Syria,...

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File Picture: Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani arrives for a luncheon during the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York City, US September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Qatar’s Policy of Contradictions Threatens Arab States’ Stability, Unity

by abdollah al-haida | Jun 6, 2017 | Middle East

Jeddah – Qatari Emir’s inflammatory statements, which were blamed by the Qatari media on an alleged “cyber hacking”, were only a mere indication of the long crisis between the Arab peninsula and its neighbors, due to its controversial policies that have threatened the...