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Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

تميم بن حمد آل ثاني
Head of state In government Verified

Emir of Qatar since June 2013, when his father Hamad bin Khalifa abdicated. Architect of Qatar's active regional mediation posture and host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Country
Qatar
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of state

Individual position

Scored from Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani's own documents rather than inherited from a party — capturing where this figure diverges from the party line. Provisional, document-grounded estimate; see methodology.

Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani's spider profile
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press
Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
Axis scores
Economic —
Social —
State & religion —
Liberal democracy —
West alignment +4.0
Regional stance —
Palestinian question +9.0
Civil liberties —
Regime stance —
Pan-Arab vs particularist —
Centralism vs federalism —
Traditionalism vs modernization —
Gender equality —
Iran posture —
Press freedom —

On the record

Quotes attributed to Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • After a year of the war, and with all that has been and is still being perpetrated in it, it is no longer tenable to talk about Israel's right to defend itself in this context without being complicit in justifying the crime.
    بعد سنة من الحرب، وبكلّ ما اقتُرف ولا يزال يُقترف فيها، لم يعد ممكناً الحديث عن حقّ إسرائيل في الدفاع عن نفسها في هذا السياق دون أن يكون ذلك تواطؤاً مع تبرير الجريمة.
    2024 Emir Tamim at the 79th UNGA, one year into the Gaza war — explicitly rejecting the "Israel's right to defend itself" frame. gadebate.un.org
  • No state can firmly be established and stable in the presence of armed factions that are not under its control. These are self-evident and unquestionable matters.
    لا يمكن لدولة أن تقوم وتستقرّ بوجود فصائل مسلّحة خارج سيطرتها. هذه أمور بدهيّة لا جدال فيها.
    2024 Tamim's state-monopoly-on-arms doctrine at the 79th UNGA — paradoxically coexisting with Qatar's defense of Hamas. Often read as implicit critique of Iran-aligned militias. gadebate.un.org
  • The occupation has brazenly taken the form of an apartheid regime in the broad daylight of the twenty-first century.
    لقد اتّخذ الاحتلال بشكل صريح شكل نظام فصل عنصري في وضح نهار القرن الحادي والعشرين.
    2023 Tamim's "apartheid" framing at the 78th UNGA, Sep 2023 — delivered 17 days before October 7. Evidence that Qatar's hard-line framing is doctrinal continuity, not a post-war pivot. gadebate.un.org
  • We are open to dialogue with our neighbours to resolve all outstanding issues, but we will not accept any infringement on our sovereignty.
    إننا منفتحون على الحوار مع جيراننا لحل كل القضايا العالقة، لكننا لن نقبل أي مساس بسيادتنا.
    2017 July 21 2017 televised address from Doha, six weeks into the Saudi-led blockade — the response to the thirteen demands delivered through Kuwait. en.wikipedia.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

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). Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/tamim-qa
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/tamim-qa.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-tamim-qa,
  title     = {{Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/tamim-qa},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  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 June 21, 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 = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.