AM Doha Time (Gulf Times)
Deputy Emir, PM receive German delegation HH the Deputy Emir and Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani received at his Emiri Diwan office yesterday morning both Ferdinand Pi ch, chairman of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen, Dr. Dirk Baumgartner, the German Ambassador to Qatar, Christian Wulff, the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony in Federal Republic of Germany, who is also member of the ...
Boyd Tonkin: Stories from the shifting sands (Independent)
What do you call a monarchy in which a popular reformist politician-writer can enjoy the warm support of the ruling dynasty but still find some of his books banned from sale at home? There can be only one answer: the unpredictable Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The author in question, novelist and minister of labour Ghazi al-Gosaibi, is living proof that the gnarly contradictions that encumber ...