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.
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.
On the other hand, it makes no difference to the emir of Qatar because it's chump change to him.
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".
The Emir of the Baha region is reported to have said he was appalled at how the religious police behaved.
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.
Although Kuwait allows more freedom of speech than some other Gulf states, the emir is considered "immune and inviolable" in the constitution.
On 7 October, the Emir again dissolved the (reinstated) parliament, but delayed announcing the date of the next election until 20 October.
The cabinet sent a letter to parliament on Monday saying the emir had "lost his health capability to exercise his constitutional prerogatives".
Colin Powell complained to the Emir, saying the statement contained coded messages.
But Mr Sarkozy says he has spoken to the Emir of Qatar, and the cleric will not be allowed to leave for France.
Moreover, to obtain his royal pardon, Sheikh Jamri was obliged to read a humiliating letter of apology to the emir on national television.
"The problem was caused by those who were preaching against it, " says Alhaji Attahiru Ahmad, the Emir of Anka in the northern-western state of Zamfara.
He was told he was suspected of undermining the status of the emir and on Tuesday was taken to the palace of justice for interrogation.
In February 2012, Kuwait's Islamist-led opposition won a majority in snap parliamentary elections called by the Emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, over the corruption crisis.
But, for all the emir's forward thinking, Qatar remains strongly conservative.
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