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Soccer is Politics (JMD in The American Interest)

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Published on: November 21, 2015
THE BEAUTIFUL GAME

Soccer is Politics

JAMES M. DORSEY

Why Egypt’s repressive regime considers soccer fans one

of its biggest threats.

A

hmed (not his real name) is an Egyptian soccer fan

—and a fugitive. He has been expelled from

university, convicted twice in absentia, and sentenced

to two long terms in prison. He mov…

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