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Hugh Eakin

World

The Strange Power of Qatar

How the contradiction-rich “country the size of Connecticut” that birthed Al-Jazeera has played an integral and surprising role in the revolutions of the Arab Spring.

Hugh Eakin New York Review of Books Oct 2011 20min Permalink