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Shifting Sands
Essays On Sports And Politics In The Middle East And North Africa
eBook | 24 November 2017
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The Middle East and North Africa are experiencing the most fundamental transition in their post-colonial history. It is a transition that is changing the borders of nation states as well as their political and social structures. Conflicting visions of what those structures should look like have ensured that transition will take years, and these deep-seated differences have ensured that the transition process is volatile, brutal and bloody. The balance of power shifts like quicksand.
Shifting Sands: Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa is a compilation of essays that constitute a first stab at exploring the importance of sports in general and soccer in particular in the political, social and cultural development of the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of the 20th century. In doing so, the book provides a new, fresh and unique perspective that contributes to understanding the turbulence sweeping the region that is fundamentally changing its geopolitics and political and social structures.
Contents:- Introduction
- Street, Shrine, Square and Soccer Pitch, Comparative Protest Spaces in Asia and the Middle East
- Reflections on the Revolutions in the Arab World — A Response to Ali A Alawi
- Facing One's Demons: The Egyptian Military and the Brotherhood at a Crossroads
- The War on the Islamic State: A Purely Military Response to Societal Problems
- Hitting Militants Where It Hurts, Development Is the Way to Fight Global Terrorism
- Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking: A Paradigm Shift
- A Region in Turmoil: Threats to Gulf Energy and Shipping
- Turkey: Caught between A Rock and a Hard Place
- Wahhabism versus Wahhabism: Qatar Challenges Saudi Arabia
- A Decade of Defiance and Dissent, A Wake-up Call for Sports
- Soccer versus Autocracy
- The 2022 World Cup: A Potential Monkey Wrench for Change
- How Qatar Is Its Own Worst Enemy
- Asian Football: A Cesspool of Government Interference, Struggles for Power, Corruption and Greed
- Football: A Sporting Barometer of European Integration Policies
Readership: Scholars as well as related media covering the regions of Middle East and North Africa, social movement, sports, and political and religiously motivated violence.
Keywords:Middle East;North Africa;Political Violence;Sports;Governance;Egypt;Qatar;IslamReview:0
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ISBN: 9789814689786
ISBN-10: 9814689785
Published: 24th November 2017
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
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