Soccer: Moulding The Middle East And North Africa
Nowhere in the world has sports in general and soccer in particular played such a key role in the development of a region than in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet, the nexus of sports, politics and society is one area that Middle East studies with few exceptions have ignored. Similarly, spor...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87948 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40009 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | Nowhere in the world has sports in general and soccer in particular played such a key role in
the development of a region than in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet, the nexus of
sports, politics and society is one area that Middle East studies with few exceptions have
ignored. Similarly, sports studies have focused on all parts of the world with one exception:
the Middle East and North Africa. Nonetheless, sports and particularly soccer has been in
various parts of the Middle East key to nation formation, nation building, regime formation,
regime survival and the struggles for human, gender and labour rights. This working paper is
an attempt to fill a gap in the literature and contribute to the development of theory on the
role of sports in the Middle East and North Africa. |
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