He took power in 1996 after staging a bloodless coup against his father, and went on to transform Qatar into the gas-rich power it is today.
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Qatar's former ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has died at age 74, state news agency saysSheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who as ruler of Qatar transformed the tiny Persian Gulf nation into a global player in diplomacy, media and investment, and then shattered tradition by voluntarily ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who as ruler of Qatar transformed the tiny Persian Gulf nation into a global player in diplomacy, media and investment and then ...
Sheikh Hamad was the architect of Qatar’s effort to develop its liquefied natural gas infrastructure and established media network Al Jazeera, which gave Qatar an outsized voice in Arab politics.
The architect of modern Qatar, former Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, has died at the age of 74. Fondly known as Father Emir, Sheikh Hamad, who ruled Qatar from 1995 to 2013, leaves behind ...
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani turned Qatar's gas into a web of dependencies that kept a small state hard to isolate. The test his successors inherit is whether those alternatives still hold when ...
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Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former Emir of Qatar, has died at the age of 74Middle East News: On July 12, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former Emir of Qatar, died at the age of 74, remembered for his transformative impact on Qatar's governance and societal ...
DUBAI, July 12 (Reuters) - Qatar's former emir, who revolutionised Qatar out of its Bedouin background to a regional powerhouse, has died at the age of 74, the nation's Amiri Diwan, its top ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who as ruler of Qatar transformed the tiny Persian Gulf nation into a global player in diplomacy, media and investment, and then ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar's former ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has died at age 74, state-run news agency says.
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