1. The boy is NOT Qatari. He may be a dual national, but he comes from a British mother and Qatari father.
2. His name is listed as Adam Jones in the article (with an Arabic name in parentheses). What I understand from this is that he goes by the western name of Adam Jones, and the newspaper supplied the Arabic name so people would understand the situation better. As there is no mention of where he was born or what it says on his birth certificate, we may not really know what his legal name is -- but again, this isn't as clear as you make it sound.
Years ago when I first came to Qatar, all my government documents here had my "name" listed very differently than it actually is -- because they chose to use my first name, followed by my father's name and my grandfather's name as MY FULL NAME. But that wasn't what ANY official documents I had ever said... But they didn't seem to care what my parents had chosen to name me; it only mattered who contributed the sperm to my creation.
3. Clearly you're right. The laws here don't value the mother very much -- which in a way is very surprising seeing as how so many people here are fond of quoting that phrase "the way to heaven is under the mother's feet". Maybe we should ammend that to say "The way to heaven is under the father's feet. And then who? The paternal grandfather's feet. And then who? The paternal uncle's feet."
"Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?" -- Groucho Marx
1. The boy is NOT Qatari. He may be a dual national, but he comes from a British mother and Qatari father.
2. His name is listed as Adam Jones in the article (with an Arabic name in parentheses). What I understand from this is that he goes by the western name of Adam Jones, and the newspaper supplied the Arabic name so people would understand the situation better. As there is no mention of where he was born or what it says on his birth certificate, we may not really know what his legal name is -- but again, this isn't as clear as you make it sound.
Years ago when I first came to Qatar, all my government documents here had my "name" listed very differently than it actually is -- because they chose to use my first name, followed by my father's name and my grandfather's name as MY FULL NAME. But that wasn't what ANY official documents I had ever said... But they didn't seem to care what my parents had chosen to name me; it only mattered who contributed the sperm to my creation.
3. Clearly you're right. The laws here don't value the mother very much -- which in a way is very surprising seeing as how so many people here are fond of quoting that phrase "the way to heaven is under the mother's feet". Maybe we should ammend that to say "The way to heaven is under the father's feet. And then who? The paternal grandfather's feet. And then who? The paternal uncle's feet."
"Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?" -- Groucho Marx