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SUMMARY:The State of the Game: Women's Basketball in the Middle East 
DESCRIPTION:A discussion on the development of women’s basketball in the Middle East. Basketball is widely considered to be an ‘American Game’\, all while increasingly becoming one of the most watched and played sports in the world\, including the Middle East. The International Basketball Federation\, FIBA\, announced on April 28\, 2023\, that Qatar has been awarded the hosting rights for the 2027 men’s FIBA Basketball World Cup. \n\nIn this panel\, the speakers discussed the state of women’s basketball in the Middle East; in particular\, how Lebanese women’s basketball may lean on the US college basketball system to develop\, and why the Middle East is ripe for basketball diplomacy. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Assile Toufaily is a third-year PhD student working on a thesis titled “The Socialization of Women’s Football: A Comparative Study between Lebanon and France.” Her research provides an innovative analysis of the sociocultural influences on the careers of female football players in two distinct settings—one with a professional sports infrastructure and the other where the sport remains underdeveloped. \n\nLindsay Sarah Krasnoff is a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Tisch Institute for Global Sport and sports diplomacy expert specializing in Franco-American relations and basketball. Author of “Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA” (Bloomsbury\, 2023) and “The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France\, 1958-2010”\,  (Lexington Books\, 2013)\, her work has appeared with TIME\, CNN International\, The Athletic\, and The New Yorker. Director of FranceAndUS and former co-director of the “Basketball Diplomacy in Africa” project (SOAS University of London)\, she is a veteran of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Historian.  \n\nModerator: Danyel Reiche\, Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) and a Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University Qatar
URL:https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/event/the-state-of-the-game-womens-basketball-in-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Education City\, Al Luqta St\, Ar-Rayyan\, Doha\, Qatar
CATEGORIES:American Studies,Panels,Regional Studies
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