Joaan bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Joaan bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani (Arabic: جوعان بن حمد بن خليفه ال ثاني ) is a close member of Royal House of Thani. He is the fifth son of former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and the third child of the Emir with his second wife, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al Missned. Sheikh Joaan Bin Hamad was educated at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, France. He was the Torch relay ambassador on the 2006 Asian Games in Doha. In May 2015, he was appointed president of the
Abdullah al-Thani after Islamist lawmakers convened a new meeting of the General National Congress in Tripoli and declared al-Thani dismissed, although he defended the elected Council of Deputies as "the only legitimate authority in the country". The next week, however, the Tobruk-based lawmakers reappointed al-Thani as prime minister and tasked him with forming a "crisis government". With Libya sliding into civil war between the two rival governments, al-Thani ordered General Khalifa Haftar to "liberate" Tripoli in October 2014. In March 2015, following the start of a military intervention in support of the internationally recognised government in Yemen, al-Thani compared the situation in