Complex sentence: She retained the post till May 2003, when the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani made her the Minister of Education; the first Qatari women to hold a cabinet post and the second in Gulf region to do so.
Split into simpler sentences: She retained the post till May 2003, when the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani made her the Minister of Education. She became the first Qatari women to hold a cabinet post and the second in Gulf region to do so.