The new Al Jazeera channel, like the original, is heavily subsidized by the emir of Qatar.
The Emir provided me insights into how he sees reform evolving throughout the region.
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Opposition leaders have called on the emir to announce a date for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Backed by his cousin, the emir, the sheikh is building a photography museum in Qatar.
When not attending to military matters, the emir dealt with a variety of requests.
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Many people doubt whether the new council will dare challenge the emir or his ministers.
Last year, a group of clerics petitioned the emir to prohibit women from standing.
Whatever the emir's motives in holding an election, most Qataris took to campaigning with glee.
His press officer, Ali Abdel Emir, fled the country this week after an assassination attempt.
The old emir watches from abroad, rich but powerless, after a nominal reconciliation with his son.
The emir offers to meet U.S. gas needs, as his nation steps up its ties to Washington.
Abou Zeid had been promoted by the emir of AQIM -- and fellow Algerian -- Abdelmalek Droukdel.
Mr Erdogan is said to have lobbied the emir of Qatar personally to invest in the deal.
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The emir of Qatar, Hamid bin Khalifa Al Thani, appointed his cousin as chairman of Al Jazeera.
The deposed emir, a man reluctant to modernise his country, was offered sanctuary by the United Arab Emirates.
On the other hand, it makes no difference to the emir of Qatar because it's chump change to him.
Today, the Kuwaiti parliament resolved a nine-day political crisis of leadership, following the death of there emir in January.
Another fake text message suggested the wife of Qatar's emir, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al Missned, had been wounded.
It has become a cornerstone of Bosniak identity, says Emir Suljagic, one of the younger generation of Bosnian politicians.
And Emir Strati punished Well when he struck the winner after 66 minutes.
However, the Emir invited the new parliament to open on Sunday, December 16.
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Mussallam al-Barrak, a former MP, had first been detained in October on suspicion of "undermining the status of the emir".
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani was in attendance in Zurich, and he thanked Fifa for "believing in change".
The Emir of the Baha region is reported to have said he was appalled at how the religious police behaved.
Al-Ajmi is the third Kuwaiti to be sentenced this year for insulting Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Twitter.
Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah has dissolved the country's parliament, paving the way for snap elections, according to state media.
Mr al Ghamdi's family want a fact-finding committee to be set up under the direct supervision of the Emir of Baha.
In Qatar, the emir who brought you Al Jazeera has already erected the successful Museum of Islamic Art designed by I.
Whatever the case, the old MPs were no more popular than before and in October the Emir properly dissolved the body.
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Despite such success, officials say that the emir plans a gradual liberalisation that could, eventually, lead to the restoration of democracy.
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