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    Iranian soccer’s curse: Politics
    James M. Dorsey
    • Feb 1
    • 4 min

    Iranian soccer’s curse: Politics

    James M. Dorsey Iran recently scored not one but two soccer successes. Fans celebrated after the country’s national team qualified for...
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    Athletes knock the legs from under global sports governance
    James M. Dorsey
    • Apr 13, 2021
    • 4 min

    Athletes knock the legs from under global sports governance

    By James M. Dorsey Sports governance worldwide has had the legs knocked out from under it. Yet, national and international sports...
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    JMD on NBN: Nicholas Blincoe, More Nobel Than War
    James M. Dorsey
    • Feb 20, 2020
    • 2 min

    JMD on NBN: Nicholas Blincoe, More Nobel Than War

    NICHOLAS BLINCOE More Noble Than War A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine BOLD TYPE BOOKS 2019 February 19, 2020 James M. Dorsey Nicholas...
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    Sports: A battlefield for freedom of expression and political change
    James M. Dorsey
    • Dec 24, 2019
    • 4 min

    Sports: A battlefield for freedom of expression and political change

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts,...
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    Death of female Iranian soccer fans puts FIFA and Asian soccer body in the dock
    James M. Dorsey
    • Sep 11, 2019
    • 4 min

    Death of female Iranian soccer fans puts FIFA and Asian soccer body in the dock

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts,...
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    Soccer emerges as the Gulf crisis’s potential icebreaker
    James M. Dorsey
    • Jun 6, 2019
    • 7 min

    Soccer emerges as the Gulf crisis’s potential icebreaker

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts...
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    The fallacy of soccer’s magical bridge-building qualities
    James M. Dorsey
    • Mar 22, 2019
    • 4 min

    The fallacy of soccer’s magical bridge-building qualities

    By James M. Dorsey Edited remarks at Brookings seminar in Doha: Lessons from the 2019 Asian Cup: Sports, Globalization, and Politics in...
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    A struggle for rule of law: Detained Bahraini footballer catapults Thailand to centre stage
    James M. Dorsey
    • Feb 1, 2019
    • 5 min

    A struggle for rule of law: Detained Bahraini footballer catapults Thailand to centre stage

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr Mounting...
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    Gulf rivalries spill onto the soccer pitch
    James M. Dorsey
    • Dec 16, 2018
    • 12 min

    Gulf rivalries spill onto the soccer pitch

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr. With the 2018 World Cup in...
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    Saudi sports diplomacy: A mirror image of the kingdom’s already challenged policies
    James M. Dorsey
    • Nov 16, 2018
    • 6 min

    Saudi sports diplomacy: A mirror image of the kingdom’s already challenged policies

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr. Saudi sports diplomacy is...
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    Trouble in Sport Paradise: Can Qatar Overcome the Diplomatic Crisis?
    James M. Dorsey
    • Aug 5, 2018
    • 1 min

    Trouble in Sport Paradise: Can Qatar Overcome the Diplomatic Crisis?

    By James M. Dorsey The crisis in the Gulf pitting a United Arab Emirates -Saudi -led alliance against Qatar is the least of the country’s...
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    Saudi-UK media tie-up: Targeting the non-Arabic-speaking Middle East
    James M. Dorsey
    • Jul 20, 2018
    • 5 min

    Saudi-UK media tie-up: Targeting the non-Arabic-speaking Middle East

    By James M. Dorsey Long satisfied to attempt to dominate pan-Arab media and battle it out with Qatar’s state-owned Al Jazeera television...
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    Israel scores painful own goal in run-up to the World Cup
    James M. Dorsey
    • Jun 5, 2018
    • 5 min

    Israel scores painful own goal in run-up to the World Cup

    By James M. Dorsey Argentina’s cancellation of a friendly against Israel because of Israeli attempts to exploit the match politically is...
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    2018 World Cup potentially set to become latest Middle Eastern battlefield
    James M. Dorsey
    • Jun 2, 2018
    • 5 min

    2018 World Cup potentially set to become latest Middle Eastern battlefield

    By James M. Dorsey A possible Saudi-Iranian clash on the soccer pitch promises to be a highlight of this month’s World Cup in Russia. It...
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    Saudi Moroccan soccer spat symbolizes the Arab world’s new politics
    James M. Dorsey
    • May 6, 2018
    • 4 min

    Saudi Moroccan soccer spat symbolizes the Arab world’s new politics

    Saudi sports czar Turki Al-Sheikh By James M. Dorsey A Saudi Moroccan soccer spat speaks volumes about the depth of change in the Arab...
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    Egyptian ultras: Down but not out
    James M. Dorsey
    • Mar 29, 2018
    • 5 min

    Egyptian ultras: Down but not out

    Photo by Karim Abdel Aziz/Egypt Today By James M. Dorsey Egyptian general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi won a second term...
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    International soccer bodies ignore blatant rule violations in run-up to Egyptian election
    James M. Dorsey
    • Mar 6, 2018
    • 4 min

    International soccer bodies ignore blatant rule violations in run-up to Egyptian election

    By James M. Dorsey International soccer bodies, in violation of their own bylaws, have ignored the blatant mixing of sports and politics...
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    Gulf crisis upends fiction of a separation of sports and politics
    James M. Dorsey
    • Feb 25, 2018
    • 5 min

    Gulf crisis upends fiction of a separation of sports and politics

    By James M. Dorsey The Gulf crisis that has pitted World Cup host Qatar against a United Arab Emirates-Saudi Arabia-led alliance for the...
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    Trade unions challenge FIFA and Qatar World Cup in Swiss Court
    James M. Dorsey
    • Dec 7, 2017
    • 4 min

    Trade unions challenge FIFA and Qatar World Cup in Swiss Court

    By James M. Dorsey Two Bangladeshi and a Dutch trade union have sued FIFA in a Swiss court in legal proceedings that challenge the world...
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    Qatar 2022 – are the hosts getting a fair hearing? (JMD quoted on Play the Game)
    James M. Dorsey
    • Nov 26, 2017
    • 3 min

    Qatar 2022 – are the hosts getting a fair hearing? (JMD quoted on Play the Game)

    Qatar 2022 – are the hosts getting a fair hearing? Hassan Al Thawadi, Secretary General of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy,...
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