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Mcmanus John - Inside Qatar Hidden Stories From One Of The Richest Nations On Earth - Paperback
Mcmanus John - Inside Qatar Hidden Stories From One Of The Richest Nations On Earth - Paperback
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Description: A wonderful and sometimes devastating book sophisticated nuanced fair - minded and yet very hard hitting Simon Kuper This will transport you to Qatar and teach you with humanity and empathy some of the dark truths about globalisation BEN Judah John Mc Manus is a remarkable compelling writer RORY Stewart Wise well informed fair - minded and honest Peter Obornean Intimate Portrait OF LIFE IN THE FIF a 2022 World CUP's HOST Nation 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 FIF a Men's World Cup anthropologist John Mc Manus 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.
Title: Inside Qatar Hidden Stories From One Of The Richest Nations On Earth
Author(s): Mcmanus John
Publisher: Icon Books
Barcode: 9781785788215
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 7/7/2022
Category: Sociology & Anthropology
Description: A wonderful and sometimes devastating book sophisticated nuanced fair - minded and yet very hard hitting Simon Kuper This will transport you to Qatar and teach you with humanity and empathy some of the dark truths about globalisation BEN Judah John Mc Manus is a remarkable compelling writer RORY Stewart Wise well informed fair - minded and honest Peter Obornean Intimate Portrait OF LIFE IN THE FIF a 2022 World CUP's HOST Nation 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 FIF a Men's World Cup anthropologist John Mc Manus 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.
Title: Inside Qatar Hidden Stories From One Of The Richest Nations On Earth
Author(s): Mcmanus John
Publisher: Icon Books
Barcode: 9781785788215
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 7/7/2022
Category: Sociology & Anthropology
