Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 17 hours ago
"The scene of Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad being received in the kingdom with a tight hug from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS), was unimaginable for the past three and half years. It marks the end of the blockade of Qatar by Saudi Arabia but can only begin to address the deeply rooted, underlying root causes of the conflict, of which the 2017 blockade was just a symptom. The underlying conflict between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar is ideological and ontological in nature: it is a conflict over worldviews on the sense of self and one’s own role in the radically changing geopolitical theatre of the post-Arab Spring region."
(C) Al Jazeera 2021
"The scene of Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad being received in the kingdom with a tight hug from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS), was unimaginable for the past three and half years. It marks the end of the blockade of Qatar by Saudi Arabia but can only begin to address the deeply rooted, underlying root causes of the conflict, of which the 2017 blockade was just a symptom. The underlying conflict between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar is ideological and ontological in nature: it is a conflict over worldviews on the sense of self and one’s own role in the radically changing geopolitical theatre of the post-Arab Spring region."
(C) Al Jazeera 2021
