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Author: John McManus
Publisher: Icon Books
Imprint: Icon Books
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.343kg
ISBN: 9781785788215
ISBN 10: 1785788213
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 07 July 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
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
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. * John Oborne, journalist and author of The Assault on Truth *
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
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 *
Author Information
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.
