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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Main Author: James M. Dorsey
Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87948
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40009
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description 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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spelling ntu-10356/879482020-11-01T08:47:28Z Soccer: Moulding The Middle East And North Africa James M. Dorsey S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science 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. 2016-02-19T07:01:01Z 2019-12-06T16:52:44Z 2016-02-19T07:01:01Z 2019-12-06T16:52:44Z 2015 Working Paper James M. Dorsey. (2015). Soccer: Moulding The Middle East And North Africa. (RSIS Working Paper, No. 286). Singapore: Nanyang Technological University. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87948 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40009 en RSIS Working Papers, 286-15 Nanyang Technological University 31 p. application/pdf
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