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Welfare Index of Migrant Workers in the Gulf: the Case of Qatar
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Wiley
, 2019 , Article)
In December 2010, Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup games. The FIFA announcement came with increasing pressure from international human rights organizations, media and other groups for Qatar to reform ...
Prescriptive analytics for FIFA World Cup lodging capacity planning
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
, 2017 , Article)
The FIFA World Cup, comprising sixty-four matches spanning an entire month, has, in recent years, been attended by about three million spectators of which over half a million are visitors requiring lodging. Planning lodging ...
Where rhetoric meets reality: an ethnographic analysis of the sports education sector in Qatar
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
This paper explores the growing provision of sports education in the state of Qatar. Since 2010, there has been a rapid increase in new courses in sports administration as part of wider, government-backed initiatives to ...
Qatar World Cup 2022: Awareness of the event and its impact on destination and country character perceptions in the US tourism market
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Cognizant Communication Corporation
, 2016 , Article)
This study examined how awareness levels of hosting the 2022 World Cup in Qatar changed perceptions of Qatar's destination image, country character, and neighboring destinations' images. Data were collected through Amazon ...
Football in the hands of the other: Qatar's World Cup in the British broadsheet press
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University of Akron
, 2017 , Article)
Using reportage of the 2022 World Cup taken from The Telegraph and The Guardian, this paper demonstrates how Bhaba's 'dynamics of writing and textuality' are implemented to represent an Orientalist discourse that describes ...
الحماية المدنية لحقوق البث الالكتروني للألعاب الرياضية "دراسة في ضوء القانون القطري والمعايير الدولية في الملكية الفكرية
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كلية القانون الكويتية العالمية
, 2017 , Article)
يركز البحث على موضوع الحماية المدنية لحقوق البث الالكتروني للألعاب الرياضية انطلاقا من التحديات التي تواجه قواعد القانون المدني تضع الإطار المنظم الأساس للحقوق بكافة أنواعها؛ وبخاصة الحقوق ذات الطبيعة المختلطة “المزدوجة" ...
Sport and development in Qatar: International and regional dynamics of sport mega-events
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Taylor & Francis
, 2021 , Book chapter)
Since winning the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar has been under the spotlight, responding to criticism regarding the working conditions of workers involved in the construction of football stadia and other ...
Scales of flows: Qatar and the urban legacies of mega events
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Emerald
, 2013 , Article)
In 2022, Qatar will become the first Middle Eastern and Arab country to host such an important Mega-Event as the FIFA World Cup. Global cultural and sporting Mega Events have driven the urban transformation of cities such ...
The influence of hosting an international sport event on the young generation: The case of Qatar
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International Sports Studies (ISS)
, 2018 , Article)
International sport events have often been regarded as a development opportunity for their host countries. For Qatar, the Handball World Championship (HWC) of 2015 may be viewed as a step towards hosting the FIFA World Cup ...
How FIFA World Cup 2022™ can meet the carbon neutral commitments and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?: Reflections from the tree nursery project in Qatar
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Wiley
, 2021 , Article)
With sustainability at the heart of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup 2022™, Qatar has set a track to achieve carbon neutrality, committing to deliver the first-ever carbon neutral mega ...