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1 David Roberts, “Qatar row: What's caused the fall-out between Gulf neighbours?” BBC News, June 5, 2017, www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40159080.
2 A. De L. Rush and Penelope Tuson (eds.), Ruling families of Arabia: Documentary Records of the Dynasties of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Oman (London, 1991).
3 Allen J. Fromherz, Qatar: A Modern History (London, 2012).
4 Kohei Hashimoto, Jareer Elass and Stacy Eller, “Liquefied Natural Gas from Qatar: The Qatar Gas Project,” Natural Gas and Geopolitics From 1970 to 2040, David G. Victor, Amy M. Jaffe, and Mark H. Hayes (eds.), as quoted in “Stanford Institute for International Studies: Geopolitics of Natural Gas Study,” (December 2004), p. 2.
5 Mark Scott, “Glencore Completes Deal for Xstrata,” The New York Times, May 2, 2013, https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/glencore-completes-deal-for-xstrata/?mcubz=0.
6 “Kremlin spurns speculation of Rosneft stake buyback from Qatar,” Reuters, June 7, 2017.
7 Edmund O'Sullivan, The New Gulf, How Modern Arabia is Changing the World For Good (Dubai, 2008).
8 David Roberts, Qatar: Securing the Global Ambitions of a City-State (London, 2017).
9 Nadhim Shehadi is the well-known intellectual and director of the Fares Centre for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
10 Hasan al Banna (1906–49) is the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. The organization was established in 1928 in his home country, Egypt, under the slogan “Islam is the Solution.”
11 Sayyid Qutb (1906–66) is an Egyptian writer and philosopher. He is one of the advocates and proponents of the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood and author of Milestones—probably his best-known work—in which he expounds his views on the Koran and Islamic culture in Muslim society.
12 Kamal Naji (1951–2009) is the second-highest ranking official in the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine in Lebanon. A close collaborator and follower of Yasir Arafat, he played a major role in strengthening dialogue between Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian community.
13 Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, Press Statement, June 2017, www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2017/06/272157.htm.
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Miroslav Zafirov
Miroslav Zafirov holds degrees in Middle Eastern history and Hebrew from St. Petersburg State University and the New Bulgarian University in Sofia. He formerly worked in the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served in his country's diplomatic mission in Kuwait, and as chargé d'affaires and head of mission at its embassy in Doha. Mr. Zafirov regularly writes on Middle Eastern history and contemporary Arab politics.