JOHN MCMANUS is a social anthropologist and writer with over ten years of experience researching and writing about the Middle East. He is the author of Welcome to Hell? In Search of the Real Turkish Football. He lives in Ankara, Turkey.
This will transport you to Qatar and teach you with humanity and empathy some of the dark truths about globalisation. -- Ben Judah, author of This is London Insightful and empathetic, McManus's conversations with Qataris and expats shed deep insight into a land of extremes. Written on the eve of hosting the World Cup, Inside Qatar tells the story of the richest, hottest country in the world as it takes global centre stage. An outstanding book. -- Eugene Rogan, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, Oxford University If you want to understand Qatar read this very readable book. It is wise, well informed, fair-minded and honest about what it is like to live in this tiny city state. -- Peter Oborne, journalist and author of The Assault on Truth John McManus is a remarkable, compelling writer - wry, alert to incongruencies, an elegant prose stylist - with an anthropologist's concern for hidden structures, and a photographer's eye for detail. -- Rory Stewart, author of The Places In Between