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The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer

James M. Dorsey

Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and co-host of the New Books in Middle Eastern Studies podcast. James is the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog, a book with the same title as well as Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, co-authored with Dr. Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario and Shifting Sands,

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00:08:28

Smugglers protests-Iran succumbs to trauma and demons

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/03/14

Recent clashes in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochistan highlight Iran’s vulnerabilities as well as its inability to overcome trauma and control its demons.

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00:08:47

Russia Foreign Minister’s Gulf tour-A bellwether of...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/03/08

As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov embarks on a four-day visit to the Gulf, Middle Eastern leaders are either struggling to get a grip on Joe Biden’s recalibration of US policy in the region or signalling their refusal to adapt to the president’s approach.

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00:09:20

Papal visit to Iraq-Breaking historic ground...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/03/05

When Pope Francis sets foot in Iraq on Friday, he will be breaking historic ground while manoeuvring religious and political minefields. So will his foremost religious counterpart, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani, one of the Shia Muslim world’s foremost scholars and leaders.

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00:07:48

China in the Middle East-Stepping up to the plate

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/03/03

When prominent Chinese Middle East scholars Sun Degang and Wu Sike last year described the Middle East as a “key region in big power diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in a new era,” they were signalling a shift in thinking that went further than a simple move away from publicly de-emphasizing the region’s importance.

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00:09:36

US intelligence report leaves Saudi Arabia with no...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/02/28

The Biden administration’s publication of a US intelligence report that holds Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman responsible for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi creates a fundamental challenge to the kingdom’s geopolitical ambitions.

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00:09:06

A little acknowledged clause may be main obstacle to...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/02/26

A little acknowledged provision of the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program explains jockeying by the United States and the Islamic republic over the modalities of a US return to the deal from which President Donald J. Trump withdrew.

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00:12:43

Myanmar-Exploiting lessons learnt in the Middle East

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/02/24

Demonstrating for the third week their determination to force the country’s military to return to its barracks, protesters in Myanmar appear to be learning lessons from a decade of protest in the Middle East and North Africa.

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00:08:31

Turkey signals sweeping regional ambitions

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/02/22

A nationalist Turkish television station with close ties to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dug up a 12-year-old map that projects Turkey’s sphere of influence in 2050 as stretching from South-eastern Europe on the northern coast of the Mediterranean and Libya on its southern shore across North Africa, the Gulf and the Levant into the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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00:11:01

Saudi schoolbooks-What does it take to...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/02/18

Two decades of snail pace revisions of Saudi schoolbooks aimed at removing supremacist references to Jews, Christians, and Shiites suggest a willingness to delete offensive language while keeping in place fundamental concepts of an ultra-conservative, anti-pluralistic, and intolerant interpretation of Islam.

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00:10:06

Muslim scholar-Human rights policy needs to focus on...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/02/15

A prominent Muslim scholar has warned that the West’s failure to include the incarceration in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Muslim world of pro-democracy religious scholars risks perpetuating autocratic rule.

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00:10:06

Saudi moderation has its limits

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2021/02/12

Two recent reports documenting significant Saudi progress in countering ingrained religious anti-Jewish, anti-Christian and anti-Shiite supremacism as well as anti-Western and other xenophobic attitudes suggest the kingdom’s receptivity to external pressure as it endeavours to position itself as the leader of a vaguely defined ‘moderate’ form of Islam.

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00:07:59

Separating the wheat from the chaff-Saudi moderation...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/02/07

Saudi Arabia’s combustible mix of religion, nationalism, and tradition as well as contradictions in the kingdom’s projection of itself as a driver of moderate Islam and major voice in combatting discrimination and racism spark heated debate on social media.

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00:12:22

Concentration Camp Guides the Far Right and Islam

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/02/03

Religion scholar Esra Ozyurek has a knack for identifying trends that ring warning bells about where Europe is heading.

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00:07:50

Islamophobia-A fungible prop for Muslim religious...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/01/30

Think the Muslim world is united in opposing Islamophobia? Think twice.

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00:09:26

Iranians move into front line of the Middle Easts...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/01/26

A recent online survey by scholars at two Dutch universities of Iranian attitudes towards religion has revealed a stunning rejection of state-imposed adherence to conservative religious mores as well as the role of religion in public life.

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00:07:53

When is usury usury? Turkish fatwa casts doubt on...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/01/20

Turkey’s state-controlled top religious authority has conditionally endorsed usury in a ruling that is likely to fuel debate about concepts of Islamic finance and could weaken President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s efforts to garner religious soft power by projecting Turkey as a leader defending Muslim causes.

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00:09:44

Egypt’s search for a fig leaf-Its not the Handball...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/01/15

Egyptian general-turned president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi sees the 2021 men’s handball world championship in Cairo and Alexandria as an opportunity to put his best foot forward at a time when Egypt’s relations with its closest regional and global partners are encountering substantial headwinds.

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00:11:28

Gulf state religious moderation falls by the wayside...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/01/07

Silent about rising sectarian violence in Pakistan, Gulf states vying for religious soft power risk exposing the limitations of their concepts of an undefined ‘moderate’ Islam that is tolerant and endorses pluralism.

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00:08:07

Erdogan positions powerful Turkish military as...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/01/04

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ushered in the new year, pledging to employ his country’s military to secure Turkey’s place in a rebalanced new world order.

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00:09:40

Indonesia potentially set to take on China and claim...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/01/01

President Joko Widodo’s recent cabinet reshuffle suggests that Indonesia may adopt a more critical attitude towards China and reinforce government support for efforts by Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the world’s largest Muslim movement, to reform Islam and position the Southeast Asian state as a key player in a battle with Middle Eastern rivals for the soul of Islam.

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