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Soccer meets politics at Doha’s Mohammed Abdul Wahhab Mosque (Play the Game)_

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Apr 21, 2012
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Qatar’s increasing engagement in European soccer and international sport is justone leg in the small Gulf State’s high-risk attempts to position itself as a global player ‘on the right side of history’. But the accompanying social and political changes also spark local opposition in a conservative culture, James M. Dorsey writes in his second analysis o…

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