Qatar’s amir ‘deserves Nobel Peace Prize’ for selling human values: Spanish media – Doha Information

El Alaoui identified Sheikh Tamim’s means to put Qatar on the prime of world rankings as a rustic, taking the lead throughout numerous industries, together with schooling, well being and social justice.

“He deserves to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nice work in sustaining and selling peace on the planet, and for selling frequent human and cultural values,” wrote El Alaoui.

Commenting on Qatar’s internet hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the professor famous that the occasion demonstrated to the world that the Gulf state, Arab and Muslim world are “a land of peace, inclusion, respect and tolerance.”

Qatar was the primary Arab nation to ever host the foremost event, which positioned the area beneath a worldwide highlight. The occasion was a possibility to introduce the Arab area to the remainder of the world whereas breaking stereotypes which have lengthy harmed Arabs and Muslims globally.

“The coexistence between the peoples in Qatar in the course of the World Cup, their respect and their frequent sense, have made it very clear that it’s a welcoming nation,” El Alaoui mentioned, thanking the amir for internet hosting the occasion.

Within the lead as much as and all through the event, Qatar was subjected to a mass marketing campaign to discredit the Gulf state.

Since successful the bid to host the World Cup in 2010, the criticism reworked massively, going from specializing in Qatar’s geographically small measurement, to violations towards migrant employees, to extra cultural-based insurance policies relating to the LGBTQ+ group. 

Regardless of ample challenges and doubts over its readiness to host the occasion, the Gulf state went on to host what has been dubbed globally as “the very best”’ version of the World Cup in FIFA historical past. 

‘Influential chief’

Final yr, Sheikh Tamim was named as essentially the most influential Muslim by Jordan-based “The Muslim 500”.

The report, revealed by the Royal Islamic Strategic Research Centre, an unbiased analysis entity, listed key achievements by the Qatari chief, from diplomacy, boosting the nation’s financial system, in addition to main historic reform in points pertaining to migrant employees.

The institute listed a few of Qatar’s mediating roles, particularly the Taliban talks with the US and the oblique negotiations between Washington and Tehran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.

Domestically, Sheikh Tamim launched the nation’s first legislative elections in October 2021, the place eligible Qataris had been capable of vote in members of the Shura Council for the primary time in its historical past.

Doha’s resilience additionally got here beneath the worldwide highlight in the course of the 2017 GCC disaster, when Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt imposed an unlawful air, land and sea blockade on Qatar.

The quartet had accused the Gulf state of supporting terrorism – claims that Qatar has vehemently denied and slammed as baseless.

Earlier than the disaster, Qatar relied on imported items for greater than 80% of its meals, which prompted authorities to offer various merchandise and in flip develop the nation’s self-sufficiency.

Qatar has additionally positioned itself as a number one exporter of liquified pure gasoline (LNG) and is at present shifting to dominate international exports beneath the North Subject growth venture. 

Below the primary section of the $28.75 billion venture, Qatar is elevating its LNG manufacturing from 77 million tonnes to 110 million tonnes by 2025, representing a 43% improve. The second a part of the venture, the largest of its form, will ramp up Qatar’s LNG manufacturing to 126 million tonnes by 2027.