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Inside Qatar

Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth

John McManus

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English
Icon Books
20 September 2022
Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition. Skyscrapers, museums and futuristic football stadiums rise out of the desert and Ferraris race through the streets. But in the shadows, migrant workers toil in the heat for risible amounts.

Inside Qatar reveals how real people live in this surreal place, a land of both great opportunity and great iniquity. Ahead of Qatar's time in the limelight as host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, anthropologist John McManus lifts a lid on the hidden worlds of its gilded princes, manual labourers and domestic workers, its teachers and policemen, culture vultures and thrill seekers.

This is the real Qatar in all its extremes - crushingly unequal and not just a little outrageous, but also diverse, riotous, pulsing with innovation and life.

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Imprint:   Icon Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 29mm
Weight:   343g
ISBN:   9781785788215
ISBN 10:   1785788213
Pages:   400
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Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product

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.

Reviews for Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth

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


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