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The Al Janoub Stadium in Doha. Shutterstock/Photo Play Simon Chadwick, SKEMA Business School When Denmark play at the men’s Fifa World Cup in Qatar this winter, their shirts will mask the name and logo of their sponsor, the sportswear brand Hummel. One of the strips is all black, which Hummel described as the “colour of mourning”. The company explained the …

Shutterstock Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra The Australian government has registered “serious concerns” with Qatar about an incident in which female passengers, including Australians, were taken off a flight bound for Australia and subjected to an invasive search. The incident happened at Hamad international airport in Doha earlier this month after a fetus was discovered in an airport bathroom. The …

Shutterstock Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Hamad International Airport at Doha has revealed the baby at the centre of an international incident in which 13 Australian women were taken from a plane and invasively searched is alive but unidentified. The revelation came as Foreign Minister Marise Payne said she was waiting for a report from Qatari authorities about this “grossly, …

In an effort to increase tourism, Saudi Arabia recently eased its strict dress code for foreign women, allowing them to go without the body-shrouding abaya robe still mandatory for Saudi women. FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images Alainna Liloia, University of Arizona Arab women, long relegated to the private sphere by law and social custom, are gaining new access to public …

Shutterstock Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra The government of Qatar has expressed “regrets” for “any distress or infringement on the personal freedoms” suffered by women subjected to invasive physical searches after the discovery of an abandoned newborn at Doha airport. Among the women taken off a Qatar Airways flight for Sydney for the searches – which extended to passengers on …

A prize for the taking. Shutterstock/fifg Leon Davis, Teesside University and Dan Plumley, Sheffield Hallam University When FIFA picked Qatar as the first Middle Eastern country to host the men’s football World Cup in 2022, some considered it a bold gamble. Others thought it was a mistake – including former FIFA President Sepp Blatter. Since then, controversy has never been …

Sidiqullah Khan/AP William Maley, Australian National University In April 1961, just months after the young John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States, his reputation for expertise in foreign policy took a battering as a result of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, a covert action against the Cuban government that collapsed within a matter of …

David B Roberts, King’s College London When the Jordanian royal family gathered on April 11 to celebrate 100 years since the kingdom’s foundation, it was a picture of dynastic unity. Alongside King Abdullah was his half-brother, the former crown prince Hamzah bin al-Hussein, who had only days ago been placed under house arrest, following what was reported in the world’s …

Saudi King Salman accompanies Kuwait’s emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, left, during the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in December 2019. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) Edmund Adam, University of Toronto When the Arab Spring protests erupted in 2010, many political pundits predicted the uprisings would ripple through the entire region and ultimately reach the oil-rich …

Lina Kennouche, Université de Lorraine Le 16 janvier dernier, le ministre saoudien des Affaires étrangères a annoncé la réouverture prochaine de l’ambassade saoudienne au Qatar, une dizaine de jours après la signature d’un accord scellant la réconciliation entre Doha et les autres pays du Conseil de Coopération du Golfe (CCG), dont Riyad. Pourtant, la position du Qatar a peu évolué depuis …