"Saudi Arabia has Mecca and Medina. We have Qaradawi." That's how a former Qatari minister described the role of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi in Qatar, where I spent a weekend last month, in a conference on U.S. relations with the Islamic world. The sheikh, educated in Islamics at the Azhar university in Cairo, lives in Doha, …
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Just Before Midnight at Al-Jazeera
I'm back from a long weekend in Doha, Qatar, an Arab Gulf country that's best known in the West as the host of the Al-Jazeera satellite television station. The occasion: a conference on "U.S. Relations with the Islamic World," sponsored by the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution and the government of Qatar. On Sunday …
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