Draft:Usama al-Qaradawi
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| Name | Usama al-Qaradawi |
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| Birth Place | Qatar, Doha |
| Religion | Islam |
Usama al-Qaradawi, son of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, is a thinker and preacher associated with the late Muslim Brotherhood.
Biography
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who has four daughters named Ilham, Saham, Asma, and Ulya, and three sons named Muhammad, Abd al-Rahman, and Usama, was temporarily dispatched to Qatar in 1961 to oversee the Higher Institute of Religious Studies and to develop its educational system by integrating beneficial classical texts with modern ones. In 1973, he founded the College of Education at Qatar University and was tasked with establishing and leading the Department of Islamic Studies. Usama was born in 1972 in Doha, the capital of Qatar.
Education
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Qatar University, obtained in 1994, and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo, obtained in 2005.
Activities
In 2005, he was appointed to the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He held several administrative and diplomatic positions, including Counselor at the Qatari Embassy in Arab Republic of Egypt and Deputy Permanent Representative of Qatar to the Arab League in Cairo. In 2021, he was appointed as Qatar's Ambassador and Extraordinary Diplomat to Romania.
Controversy over Usama's Nationality
His appointment sparked controversy in Qatar due to his possession of another nationality, namely Egyptian. The appointment of Usama al-Qaradawi as Qatar's Ambassador to Romania elicited a mixture of surprise and condemnation within Qatar and other countries. Although Usama holds Qatari citizenship, his Egyptian nationality and his ideological affiliations with the Muslim Brotherhood organization provoked criticism from Qatari media, as he is regarded as an affiliate of the political Islam movement, of which his father, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, was a major theorist.
Another point that stirred protest among Qatari citizens and news agencies was that, upon announcing Usama's appointment, the Qatari government concealed his surname without providing any justification for doing so.
In addition to hiding the ambassador's surname, at a time when Twitter users believed he would follow in his father Yusuf al-Qaradawi's footsteps, he was granted the high diplomatic rank of "Extraordinary Ambassador" by the highest authority in Qatar. Shortly thereafter, with the Muslim Brotherhood organization being listed at the top of terrorist groups in four countries—Arab Republic of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain—he too was classified as a terrorist.
Although some deny any official connection between Usama al-Qaradawi and the Muslim Brotherhood, he plays a pivotal and central role in supporting them by assigning tasks to Qatari officials, particularly at the financial level.