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This paper focuses on the 15th Asian Games, which will be staged in Doha. Qatar is the first Arab Middle Eastern country to host the Asian Games, which will be the biggest ever organized, with 45 countries and 40 sports represented. The paper examines the political discourse around the games, and more specifically explores how state leaders, politicians, sports personalities and journalists are discussing the significance and impact of the staging of the Asian Games on the region in general and on Qatari society in particular. Discussing the importance that sport as a phenomenon is assuming in this region assists in highlighting some of the major issues that these societies are facing today. Sport in its multiple forms is becoming a tool for leaders in the Gulf to reposition their countries on the world map.
Mahfoud Amara (Thu,) studied this question.