Word: doha
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...including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, Egypt and other U.S. allies ? for a summit which opens on Tuesday was heralded by Iran as a victory over Washington?s policy of isolating Teheran. Many of the same moderate Arab governments had stood up Albright last month at an economic summit in Doha in Qatar in order to express their displeasure at Washington?s performance in the Mideast peace process. Many observers believe this gathering will reinforce calls within the administration for a rethink of Mideast and Gulf policies: The recent Gulf crisis showed not only that Washington has little support in Europe...
...failure to push Israel into meaningful peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Those looking for a symbol of the fractious, anti-American climate that has emboldened Saddam need look no further than Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's lonely visit to the Middle Eastern economic summit held last weekend in Doha, Qatar. Despite U.S. pressure on Arab states to attend, America's closest Arab allies--Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Morocco--all refused to show up. So embittered was the atmosphere that in the end Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy declined to attend...
From the capital of Doha, a glass-and-steel city whose residents once survived on pearl fishing, Hamad has scheduled municipal elections and loosened restrictions on the press, near revolutionary moves in the ultrapatriarchal gulf. He has angered neighbors by receiving a minister from Iraq and a minister plus a battleship from Iran--every other sheik's two worst enemies. He has also tried to outdo them in pleasing the U.S., offering the Pentagon a base on his soil and, until Benjamin Netanyahu came to power, moving faster to normalize relations with Israel...
...luxury and life-style," Hamad says. "We have to change our mentality." When one of his sons took unauthorized leave from his army post, he was dismissed on the spot. "Modernization is not just roads and television, but a way of thinking," says Mohammed Musfir, editor of Rayah, Doha's daily newspaper...
...Emir is counting on the popularity of his policies to pull him through. But he's not pushing a personality cult. One morning last summer, he was riding to work when he noticed billboards across Doha praising the first anniversary of his accession. When Hamad got to the Diwan, he issued instructions: Drop plans to celebrate the coup anniversary. "As for myself," the Emir said, "I plan to go fishing...