Qatar to vote on cancelling elections ‘in name of democracy and social cohesion’
While the eyes of the world are focused on the fateful elections in the USA, citizens of Qatar will also attend the polling ...
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Shura Council member participates in IPU Standing Committee on Democracy and Human Rights
Geneva, Oct. 16 (BNA): Dalal Jassim Al Zayed, Shura Council member, participated in a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s Standing Committee on Democracy and Human Rights. The meeting was held ...
Opinion
To Understand Egypt, Meet My Friend, a Political Prisoner
When we were younger, my friend Alaa Abd El Fattah and I didn’t know just how intimately prison, and state violence, would shape our lives.
Al-Monitor on MSN9d
Qatar votes overwhelmingly to scrap legislative polls
A referendum in Qatar to scrap short-lived legislative polls has passed with more than 90 percent of the vote, officials said ...
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Qataris decide whether to end limited voting for legislative seats in shadow of US election
The country finally held elections for two-thirds of the Shura Council, which drafts laws ... 11, 2001, attacks. Hopes for ...
The Washington Post9d
Qataris votes to end limited polls for legislative seats in shadow of US election
The country finally held elections for two-thirds of the Shura Council ... 11, 2001, attacks. Hopes for democracy in the region also rose in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring.