emir

As the Qatari emir said in the wake of the recent Middle Eastern conflict, it's clear who's running the show geopolitically.

The movie Underground[1] by acclaimed director Emir Kusturica is a fabulous study of this phenomenon and a fantastic movie on its own.

These are pictures mostly of rural folks, and even the ones with some kind of position like the emir were probably very poor.

Their foreign policy changed after the current Emir took control 10 years ago.

President Joe Biden has engaged in discussions with Qatar's Emir regarding the protection of civilians and the need for humanitarian aid in Gaza.

She could also be a pathological liar, secretly a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man or the Emir of Groovefunkistan.

I understand why Emir consider's himself lucky, and I think that most immigrants do too.

The current emir succeeded him peacefully after the father stepped down.

Though I don't think the Emir of Dubai flies Emirates.

It's like comparing a wealthy emir who has 1 child with each of his 10 concubines in his harem to an average man who has two kids with his one wife.

Zhenghe was himself a sufi muslim Eunuch born inland in the Himalayas at ~2200m altitude, last bastion of the purged Mongol-era ruling family of Yunnan, descended from the pre-Mongol invasion Emir of Bokhara, Uzbekistan, and through his family thought to be fluent in Persian, which was then something of a pan-regional lingua franca.

Emir's women have a fertility rate of 1 while the average man's wife has a fertility rate of 2.

Emir Kusturica needs to make a movie out of this.

Secondly, at least in the case of Qatar (also ruled by an emir, not an emirate by name, and not a state in the United Arab Emirates) is ruled largely by decree.