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Qatar has proved its critics wrong: the small state showed that it is capable of successfully organizing the world’s biggest sporting event, the FIFA men’s World Cup, after the setbacks…

Despite the Israeli team not playing in the FIFA 2022 World Cup, the presence of Israeli sports fans and journalists has made some headlines. Although not all forms of activism…

Even though the World Cup 2022™ is a historic opportunity for the Middle East to leave its indelible mark on the history of football, the tournament has a distinctively Qatari…

Blog 34 By Hissa Al-Kubaisi. After a bidding process that began in 2009 and ended in 2010, Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Although this…

On December 10, 2010, Qatar, a small, wealthy state in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), became the first Arab and Muslim country to be selected as the host of the…

The upcoming World Cup in Qatar will be groundbreaking in many ways when the host nation takes on Ecuador on November 20 at the Al Bayt Stadium. Aside from being…

Prior to winning the bid for the 2022 World Cup, Qatar did not have a women’s national football team. In 2010, the same year that Qatar won the bid, the…

Aside from the increasing media attention towards the World Cup in Qatar, one of the most important international sports stories of the year, certainly for this region, broke last week…

Central to issues of national identity and state-building, modern sports are not just about the physical activity of “playing the game,” they are also subject to the “politics of the…

On August 2, 2022, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) held an open house for GU-Q students, faculty, and staff to learn more about CIRS, the CIRS Undergraduate…