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PtG Opinion 15.11.2024
The dangers of ‘balanced journalism’: A call for journalists to scrutinise Saudi’s sports investments
PtG Article 27.06.2024
How Saudi Arabia buys influence in US Sports
PtG Analysis 12.06.2024
EURO 2024: Meet the man that secures Qatar’s grip on European football
PtG Article 23.05.2024
Rich Gulf states are taking over combat sports
PtG Article 23.04.2024
Doing journalism in FIFA land
PtG Comment 27.02.2024
From Qatar to Saudi: Soul-searching in sports reporting
PtG Article 06.02.2024
Lessons from Qatar 2022: How activists should approach the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia
PtG Article 05.02.2024
Session on Qatar 2022 raised tense debate about bias and bigotry in media reporting
PtG Article 01.02.2024
The Saudi prince: "Our ambition is to organise a better World Cup than Qatar"
PtG Article 22.01.2024
"No one cares about Qatar anymore"
PtG Article 01.11.2023
The power players behind Saudi Arabia's sports strategy
PtG Article 01.11.2023
Play the Game publishes dataset that maps the network of actors behind Saudi Arabia's sports strategy
PtG Article 12.10.2023
Soft power through combat sports: The Abu Dhabi blueprint
PtG Article 12.01.2023
The expansion of Saudi investments in sport: From football to esport
PtG Article 27.10.2022
The Saudis in sport: Ambitions much larger than sportswashing
PtG Article 20.09.2022
New IOC human rights strategy brought to the test in negotiations with the Taliban regime
PtG Article 27.07.2022
From sportswashing in autocracies to soft power in democracies 
PtG Article 04.07.2022
Call for nuances in media reporting of the World Cup in Qatar
PtG Article 30.06.2022
Afghanistan’s first female Olympian: IOC is funding the Taliban-controlled NOC in Kabul
PtG Article 30.06.2022
Khalida Popal: The international community has failed the women of Afghanistan
PtG Article 21.03.2019
Anti-Semitism in sport: Discrimination and death threats
PtG Article 03.05.2016
In Palestine, women run for their rights
PtG Article 04.10.2011
How football fuelled the Arab Spring
PtG Comment 23.03.2011
A Middle East Female Sports Revolution?