Posts Tagged: Qatar Human Rights
The Middle East and Human Rights: A Road Map After the Qatari World Cup
The World Cup in Qatar put the myth of a separation of sports and politics to bed. Like in Qatar, human rights, worker rights, and LGBT...
The World Cup Was Just the Beginning, as Qatar Eyes More 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...
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 twist...
Why the US-Saudi Relationship Will Last
Regardless of the intensity of the current conflict between the Biden administration and Saudi Arabia, their long history of military alliance and shared concerns over...
Qatar World Cup Offers Lessons for Human Rights Struggles
It’s a good time, almost 12 years after the world soccer body, FIFA, awarded Qatar the 2022 World Cup hosting rights -- and five months...
The 2022 World Cup: Is Qatar Putting Its Best Foot Forward?
This is Qatar's year to put its best foot forward. A major producer of natural gas, the tiny Gulf state is under the magnifying glass as...
The Qatar World Cup: Dreaming of Bridging the Gulf Rift
The idea of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar mending fences in the Gulf is grounded in the longstanding illusion that soccer can drive events...
Modern-Day Slavery?: ‘World Cup Has Been Built on the Violation of Human Rights’
A stunning report by German broadcaster WDR recently pushed FIFA to admit for the first time that the governing soccer organization did, in fact, violate human...
Qatar’s Duplicitous Game
In the first of a two-part assessment of its growing role on the world stage and dubious influence on Middle East and Arab politics, Paul...
