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The Sharp Edges of the Beautiful Game: Rethinking Qatar’s “Sports Diplomacy”
For European football, the usual drama of the off-season was bookended last year by seismic events with sizable price-tags. In April, twelve of Europe’s...
China’s Winter Paralympic Games in Beijing 2022
After closely following the atmosphere of the war in Ukraine, which coincided with the organization of the “Beijing Winter Paralympic Games”, which opened on...
Qatar World Cup 2022: The ‘Beautiful’ Game
This world cup should be set in stone as a reminder of failure of our collective conscience where some lives were deemed more important...
“Together for a Shared Future” heralds a new era of global cooperation
According to the lunar calendar, February 4th is the herald of Spring and also ushers in the 2022 Winter Olympic Games as the world...
Iranian soccer’s curse: Politics
Iran recently scored not one but two soccer successes.
Fans celebrated after the country’s national team qualified for the third consecutive time for the World...
The American politicization of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the “post-truth era” theory
Since the Egyptian researcher has begun her academic major in “contemporary Chinese political affairs and contemporary communist studies”, I have focused on tracing the...
China and Indo-Pacific democracies in the face of American boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
Despite the US administration’s announcement of a boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, with the “American Olympic Committee allowing the participation of American...
The Spirit of the Olympic Games and the Rise of China
It is fair to say that no country like China has so seriously connected its national rejuvenation to the Olympic Games for one century....
Grace and a Tennis Celebrity
Among the character traits we cherish in fellow humans, grace is often more noticeable in its absence. The recent saga of a Serbian tennis...
Saudi diplomacy needs flesh on its skeleton of sports and religion
Like Qatar, after winning the right to host this year's World Cup, Saudi Arabia is discovering the pitfalls of seeking soft power, whether through...