Born in 1950, he was brought up, after his young mother's death, by his maternal uncle and then went, like many wealthy Gulf Arabs, to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in England.

And he married yet again, solidifying another alliance with another cousin.Everything one might expect. Your session to The Christian Mar 16, 2013 - Explore Chris Shields's board "Sheikha Mozah" on Pinterest. He married a cousin, which cemented a problematic political alliance. Nasser returned to Qatar with his immediate family in 1977, the year in which his daughter Moza married Sheikh Hamad responded in typically modern fashion – by hiring a big US law firm to help freeze money, reported to be in the billions, that his father had in bank accounts around the world.Sheikh Hamad was in his mid-40s when he took Qatar's reins of power, in a region where the median age of rulers at the time was 60. The nation's riches endowed its 200,000 citizens with free education, healthcare, housing, utilities, and one of the highest per capita incomes in the world: between $20,000 and $30,000 today.But Hamad – young, intelligent, well educated, and by the mid-1990s heading a fast-growing family of new-generation al-Thanis – was restless. "Think Spain in the 16th century," suggests James Reardon Anderson, dean of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service outpost in Qatar. Sheikha Moza has been at the forefront of developing the country’s word class education system since 1995, through her leadership of Qatar Foundation’s Education City campus in Doha stands as one of the nation’s most impressive achievements, and houses an array of world-renowned campuses, as well as Her Highness’s passion for education and her belief in its ability to enhance opportunities and transform societies, have also inspired her efforts to protect and promote quality education across the globe.In support of her United Nations roles and her commitment to the universal right to education, Sheikha Moza has set up a number of international programmes that protect and promote access to schooling.Sheikha Moza has also undertaken several high-profile projects to promote education, social reform and economic opportunity throughout the Arab world, including the Her Highness cherishes her country’s rich traditions and heritage, and she has spearheaded a number of initiatives seeking to safeguard and nurture them – from the national library, to urban regeneration, and equestrian training.A healthy population is essential to a strong, prosperous society, and Sheikha Moza has been at the forefront of comprehensive reforms to provide all Qataris with access to world-class healthcare.She also supported a restructuring of Qatar’s healthcare system in her former role as Vice Chair of the Supreme Council of Health 2009-2014.© 2020 Office of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, State of Qatar. He married Sheikha Mozah, because she caught his fancy. And, true, she looked stunning. Sheikha Mozah accompanied her husband Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani on the state visit. He wanted Mozah for his second wife. Sheikha Moza has also undertaken several high-profile projects to promote education, social reform and economic opportunity throughout the Arab world, including the Silatech initiative. It had been this way for centuries, and probably would be for millenniums more. And, indeed, the buffet was sumptuous, and all the who's who on the guest list were wowed by the grand affair. It isn't the gleaming over-air-conditioned shopping malls, or the luxury hotels with dazzling foyers, or even the foreign workers scuttling every which way to drive, clean, serve, manage, and construct the whole project. It isn't the natural gas that was discovered in the 1970s, or any of the subsequent trappings of sudden, new-rich chic so common in the Gulf neighborhood that is different.