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James M. Dorsey
- Jun 30
- 5 min
Qatar World Cup offers lessons for human rights struggles
James M. Dorsey A podcast version is available on Soundcloud,Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. It’s a good time, almost 12 years...
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James M. Dorsey
- Jun 20
- 5 min
The World Cup and beyond: Thinking strategically about LGBT rights
James M. Dorsey A podcast version is available on Soundcloud,Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. When Egyptian football legend...
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James M. Dorsey
- Apr 3
- 5 min
The 2022 World Cup: Is Qatar Putting its Best Foot Forward?
By James M. Dorsey To watch a video version of this story please click here. This is Qatar's year to put its best foot forward. A major...
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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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James M. Dorsey
- Nov 23, 2021
- 5 min
Qatari World Cup sparks healthy controversy across multiple issues
November 23, 2021 By James M. Dorsey When seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton wore a helmet this weekend featuring the...
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James M. Dorsey
- Apr 14, 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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James M. Dorsey
- Nov 5, 2020
- 2 min
JMD on NBN: Masters of the Pearl
Michael Quentin Morton Nov 3, 2020 / James M. Dorsey Masters of the Pearl A History of Qatar REAKTION BOOKS 2020 History is not the...
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James M. Dorsey
- Oct 31, 2020
- 3 min
The Qatar World Cup: Dreaming of Bridging the Gulf Rift
By James M. Dorsey With the 2022 World Cup in Qatar only two years away, and a resolution of the three-year-old Gulf rift nowhere in...
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James M. Dorsey
- Jun 7, 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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James M. Dorsey
- Feb 2, 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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James M. Dorsey
- Dec 17, 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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James M. Dorsey
- Nov 17, 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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James M. Dorsey
- Aug 6, 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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James M. Dorsey
- Dec 8, 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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James M. Dorsey
- Nov 27, 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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James M. Dorsey
- Nov 21, 2017
- 5 min
FIFA on Trial: Qatar’s World Cup back in the firing line
By James M. Dorsey Testimony of a star witness in a New York courtroom has revealed new allegations of Qatari wrongdoing in its...
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James M. Dorsey
- Nov 3, 2017
- 5 min
Gulf crisis: Soccer trumps politics
By James M. Dorsey A target of massive Saudi investment, the Maldives severed diplomatic relations with Qatar hours after a Saudi-UAE-led...
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James M. Dorsey
- Oct 26, 2017
- 4 min
Activists and Gulf crisis turn Qatar into potential model of social change
By James M. Dorsey Potential Qatari moves to become the first Gulf state to effectively abolish the region’s onerous kafala or labour...
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James M. Dorsey
- Sep 4, 2017
- 5 min
The Gulf crisis: Fighting it out down and dirty
Source: Middle East Eye By James M. Dorsey In the three-month old Gulf crisis, nothing is too expensive or too down and dirty when it...
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