Qatar Head of government

Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani

محمد بن عبدالرحمن آل ثاني

Head of government In government Independent Verified

Prime Minister of Qatar since March 2023 and Foreign Minister since 2016 — the longest-serving foreign minister in any Gulf country. Has been the lead Qatari mediator in the 2020 US-Taliban talks, the 2024 Israel-Hamas hostage negotiations, and the ongoing Iran-US backchannel. The face of Doha's "mediator as foreign policy" doctrine.

Country: Qatar
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Head of government

Position

Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani governs without formal party mediation and has no source documents on file yet, so no individual position is assigned.

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mohammed-bin-abdulrahman-qa

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mohammed-bin-abdulrahman-qa.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-mohammed-bin-abdulrahman-qa,
  title     = {{Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mohammed-bin-abdulrahman-qa},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.