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The mighty power of football across the globe.
To make men’s soccer a more inclusive space, organizers and players must put allyship above profits and winning.
Fifa has enacted little change to its culture to ensure corruption doesn’t occur again.
Migrant workers’ rights are indeed an ongoing issue in Qatar – but the country has passed reforms to improve workers’ rights, and it isn’t the only issue to define Qatar.
The decision to only pay lip service to discrimination could have long term impacts.
Staging the spectacle in Qatar has raised rights issues and concerns about the heat. But away from the controversy, there will be the usual mix of sporting moments, supporters’ joy and heartache.
And how have FIFA and Qatar manoeuvred to deflect criticism?
No African team has reached the semi-final stage. Out of Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia, the most likely to do so is Senegal.
Puma’s support for Israeli football teams in the occupied Palestinian territories goes against FIFA’s rules.
The stakes are high.
In the year since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, human rights abuses are off the charts, particularly towards women and ethnic minorities.
It’s the most expensive FIFA World Cup in history.
Despite often seismic political upheavals over the years, most Middle Eastern royal families have been able to weather the storms.
The Qatari government has expressed its regret for distressed caused to female travellers who were subjected to invasive examinations after a newborn baby was found abandoned at Doha airport.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne has described the invasive searching of 13 Australian women as “grossly disturbing”.
Gulf monarchies emerged from the Arab Spring relatively unscathed, while some Middle East republics were devastated by civil war. Here’s how they managed — and how education may have played a part.
In countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain, it’s now official policy that women should go to college and work outside the home. But cultural pressure to marry and have kids remains strong.
To ensure its energy security and influence in the Gulf region, the United Kingdom will likely deepen its relations with GCC nations in a post-Brexit world.
With the opening of a synagogue in Dubai and warmer relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, some Arab states suddenly appear to be more open to friendship with Israel and Jews. Why?
Top contributors
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Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
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Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute, Rice University
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
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Professor and Chair of Allied Health Studies, Stephen F. Austin State University
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Associate Professor of International Relations, Gulf University for Science and Technology
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Reader in Sociology of Sport, Loughborough University