Qatar Head of government
Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani
محمد بن عبدالرحمن آل ثانيPrime Minister of Qatar since March 2023 and Foreign Minister since 2016 — the longest-serving foreign minister in any Gulf country. Has been the lead Qatari mediator in the 2020 US-Taliban talks, the 2024 Israel-Hamas hostage negotiations, and the ongoing Iran-US backchannel. The face of Doha's "mediator as foreign policy" doctrine.
- Country
- Qatar
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Head of government
Position
2 source documents on file for Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from them; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Interview English 2025-10-29 Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (Qatar's PM & Foreign Minister) — Council on Foreign Relations conversation, 29 Oct 2025: Qatar's mediation doctrine — "number one is trust… that we have built through friendships around the world" and proposing "solutions that's adoptable by both parties." The Qatari mediation / dialogue-diplomacy pole. [Second doc — distinct mediation-doctrine axis.]
I think number one is trust, and the trust that we have built through friendships around the world has, of course, boosted Qatar in that role. We are trying to be very clear with them, and proposing for them solutions…
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Speech English 2025-01-15 Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani (Qatar's Prime Minister & Foreign Minister) — official statement announcing the Gaza ceasefire (Qatar MOFA, 15 Jan 2025): after "411 days" of mediation Qatar (with Egypt and the US) reached a ceasefire and prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel; "the responsibility now rests with the parties... to navigate toward the shores of peace."
Since the successful mediation that halted the fighting in November and secured the release of 109 hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, we have been working continuously to reach an agreement that halt the…
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mohammed-bin-abdulrahman-qa
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mohammed-bin-abdulrahman-qa.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-mohammed-bin-abdulrahman-qa,
title = {{Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mohammed-bin-abdulrahman-qa},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.