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Inside Qatar
Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
John McManus
- 320 Seiten
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Inside Qatar
Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
John McManus
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'A wonderful and sometimes devastating book... sophisticated, nuanced, fair-minded and yet very hard hitting' SIMON KUPER, author of SOCCERNOMICS '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 ' John McManus is a remarkable, compelling writer' RORY STEWART, author of THE PLACES IN BETWEEN 'Wise, well informed, fair-minded and honest' PETER OBORNE, author of THE ASSAULT ON TRUTH AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD'S RICHEST NATIONS AHEAD OF THE FIFA 2022 WORLD CUP Just 75 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 Men's World Cup, anthropologist John McManus lifts a lid on the hidden worlds of its gilded elite, its spin doctors and thrill seekers, its manual labourers and domestic workers.The sum of their tales is not some exotic cabinet of curiosities. Instead, Inside Qatar opens a window onto the global problems - of unfettered capitalism, growing inequality and climate change - that concern us all.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- A note on particulars
- Maps
- 1: âExcuse me, kind sir. I am very illâ
- 2: âNow, everybody they like falconâ
- 3: âI know I am the driver. I canât take my family hereâ
- 4: âIn media yes, very very good but in the reality nothing. Zeroâ
- 5: âThere are so many people looking for job in this countryâ
- 6: âIâve got an S-Class Mercedes picking me up in the morning and taking me to workâ
- 7: âItâs like Leicester winning the Premier League with homegrown playersâ
- 8: âHere we are all expats. So we are all on a journey, on a pilgrimageâ
- 9: âKing of the batâ
- 10: âIâm not âyour maidâ. I am Maggie!â
- 11: âItâs just really sad if this is what news isâ
- 12: âI was all alone. I had to do what I was toldâ
- 13: âThe lungs of Dohaâ
- 14: âItâs getting hotter and hotter every yearâ
- 15: âIâve met lots of happier people than us in Qatarâ
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Copyright