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The Road to Qatar, with James Montague
Intelligence Squared
Is the World Cup in Qatar?
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I think this criticism has pretty directly led to improvements, which have been incomplete and not gone far enough. The blockade was an abject failure by any stretch of the imagination. And if you see how it's being reported in Qatari press or picked up on social media, it's still just the Western Orientalists pushing critical lines against Qatar. I mean, they didn't have to make any concessions at all. They're most people, UAE and Saudi nationals, are going to be playing out on social media even for most people who don't know about them. But originally, this World Cup was supposed to be about the Middle East World Cup, right? The Muslim world's first World Cup
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