Emir Sheikh Tamim takes the helm in Qatar.


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Issue 950 - 05 Jul 2013
On 25 June, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani abdicated in favour of his son Sheikh Tamim. The stage-managed transfer of power is not expected to herald great change, though it did also mark the end of Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim’s influential premiership

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