Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

The sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani was born in 1950 with Doha with the Qatar. He is the emir of Qatar since 1995. He is graduate military royal Académie of Sandhurst in 1971.

In 1995, whereas his/her father the sheik Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani is in Suisse, Hamad bin Khalifa, then Minister for Defense and chief of the armed forces, reverses it and seizes the power. After an attempt missed by return into 1996 of his father, the sheik Hamad bin Khalifa undertakes the modernization of the country.

The sheik is more known uninterrupted in Occident to have created the Arab chain of information Al-Jezira, which is worth criticisms of the the United States to him. Nevertheless, the Qatar remains an unconditional ally of the the United States in the the Middle East, for proof the establishment of American universities with “Education City, Qatar”, a project carried out by the woman of the sheik.

See too

Emirs of Qatar
Qatar
List of the current leaders

External bonds

Official site of the Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa

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