Mishaal bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Mishaal bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Mishaal bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (born 2 July 1972) (Arabic: مشعل بن حمد بن خليفة الثاني ) is a member of the Royal House of Thani. Sheikh Mishaal is the first son and oldest child of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and his first wife, Sheikha Mariam bint Muhammad Al Thani. Sheikh Mishaal was named as the crown prince on 30 June 1995 after his father became the emir. Then he began to work at the ministry of foreign affairs, heading Qatari missions. He served
Country house poem Country house poem A country house poem is a poem in which the author compliments a wealthy patron or a friend through a description of his country house. Such poems were popular in early 17th century England. The genre may be regarded as a sub-set of the topographical poem. The model for the country house poem is Ben Jonson's "To Penshurst", published in 1616, which compliments Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, younger brother of Sir Philip Sidney on his Penshurst Place. (However, To Penshurst was preceded by five years by Emilia Lanyer’s A Description of Cookeham, one of the