Sport in the Middle East: Power, Politics, Ideology and Religion

ISBN-13: 9781138950689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 114 str.

Fan Hong

Opis

The collection provides interdisciplinary study of sport in the Middle East in the context of history, politics, policies, gender, religion, ideology and international relations.

This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Spis treści

1. Our Games! The Pan-Arab Games (1953–1965) Luis Henrique Rolim Silva and Hans-Dieter Gerber 2. ‘Pioneer of Olympism in the Middle East’: Gabriel Gemayel and Lebanese Sport Andrea L. Stanton 3. Women in Management and Leadership in the Olympic Movement in Muslim Majority Countries: An Empirical Evaluation of Huntington's Clash of Civilisations Typology Shushu Chen and Ian Henry 4. The Sportification and Heritagisation of Traditional Turkish Oil Wrestling Birgit Krawietz 5. Out of Bounds: Cultural Barriers to Female Sports Participation in Qatar Geoff Harkness 6. The Establishment and Development of the Initial Physical Education Teacher's Training Programme for Women in Oman Yousra Al-Sinani 7. Book Reviews: Makhzanat Arriadah: Korat El-Kadam Namoudhajan [Makhzenization of Sport in Morocco: case study of football] and Sport et Politique en Algérie Mahfoud Amara

O autorze

Fan Hong is a Professor at the School of Asian Studies, University College Cork, Ireland. Her main research interests are in the areas of culture, politics, business, gender and sport.