Qatar: Thousands Welcome Qatar Emir

Qatar: Thousands Welcome Sheikh Tamim.  


The show of unity was also aimed at refuting rumours from other Gulf media outlets that Qataris are looking for a change of leadership.

"This display of passion and patriotic fervour among the Qataris is really quite unprecedented," Ahelbarra said.

Sultan Barakat, director of Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute, said it felt "as if half of Doha" was on the street.

Gulf crisis explained, 100 days after anti-Qatar blockade

"Publicly, seeing the images today will push them [the blockading countries] to think twice about this particular issue," he added.

"It's been about 110 days or so and there hasn't been any feeling of split in the society and it seems to me that everyone is very much united behind the emir."



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