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The Business of the FIFA World Cup (Part II): The World Witnesses Qatar’s Efforts to Balance Culture and Identity
Authors : Dr. Christos Anagnostopoulos and Dr. Mahfoud Amara*
The hosting of the FIFA World Cup 2022 has certainly been a monumental achievement by the...
Getting it Right: A Post-Qatar Roadmap for Activists
Qatar 2022 put the myth of a separation of sports and politics to bed.
Like in Qatar, human, worker, and LGBT rights are likely to...
The Business of the FIFA World Cup (Part I): Qatar: Towards Becoming a New Global Sports Hub
Authors: Dr. Christos Anagnostopoulos and Professor Simon Chadwick*
Two years ago, four academics convinced some of the world’s leading scholars to contribute to the first...
Qatar was just the beginning as Middle East eyes Asian sports
This decade and beyond could be the era of Middle Eastern sports.
It may not have sunk in yet, but the Qatar World Cup was...
The World Cup and its Stars
The world's attention has been focused on the tiny Gulf State of Qatar these last two weeks not for some major political event but...
Off the pitch, Morocco emerges a winner in the World Cup
France defeated Morocco 2:0 on the pitch, but off the pitch Morocco is up 4:0.
Ultimately, the effects of Morocco’s off-the-pitch success may ripple much...
Qatar World Cup: Controversy, Racism, and Our Orientalism
This mid-November air felt like an autumn season after a long bleak pandemic tarnished the globe and a world enraged by regional conflicts. It...
Qatar punctures FIFA’s political fantasy
If the Qatar World Cup proved anything, it’s that sports and politics are inseparable Siamese twins joined at the hip.
Politics popped up at every...
Protest emerges as a mixed blessing for World Cup host Qatar
Protest on the soccer pitch has proven to be a mixed blessing for World Cup host Qatar, exposing double standards in the Gulf state’s...
The Qatar World Cup: Soccer upsets, politics, and sensitive situations
Barely out of the starting blocks, the Qatar World Cup has already produced a fair share of upsets as well as politically and personally...