Qatar 
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/18/2022
The Qatar World Cup is History
by Laurent Dubois
The World Cup, more than any previous version, symbolizes the contradictions of the joy of play being entangled with nationalism, global capitalism, and repressive theocratic autocracy.
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SOURCE: History Club (Substack)
12/4/2022
Qatar's World Cup Echoes Brutal American Labor History
by Jason Steinhauer
Exposés of the brutal conditions faced by migrant laborers who built Qatar's World Cup facilities echoes the history of American public works, where workers' bodies and lives were subordinated to budgets and timetables.
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6-25-17
The Trump Doctrine in the Middle East Is to Follow Saudi Arabia’s Lead
by James L. Gelvin
This explains what sparked the Saudi-Qatari Cold War.
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SOURCE: NYT
6-13-17
How the Saudi-Qatar Rivalry, Now Combusting, Reshaped the Middle East
Few countries have ever grown from client state to regional power. Qatar managed it in just a few years.
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SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
4-30-13
Greeks to stop Qatari nude cover-up
Nudity is an all or nothing kind of thing, as Qatari authorities recently discovered. Seek to drape the naughty bits of a pair of ancient sculptures of nude male athletes, and you end up with no nudes at all.This is precisely what happened at Alriwaq Doha exhibition space. Having loaned the gallery the two sculptures for its Olympics Past and Present exhibition, Athens preferred to see them returned than exhibited with their modesty veiled.The Qatari anxiety about displaying the naked body has a different root — but is no more or less valid — than that which saw thousands of statues suffer the chop across the history of the Western world....
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