Mohamad Elmasry
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- Jul 10, 2026
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How an Egypt-Argentina World Cup game became a referendum on Palestine (opens the original)
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Professor in the Media Studies program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Tuesday’s round-of-16 FIFA World Cup match between Egypt and Argentina in Atlanta was perhaps both the tournament’s most controversial game and its most politically consequential. After going up 1-0 against the defending champions, Egypt had a second goal controversially disallowed and its request for video review of an Argentina goal denied. Fans and experts complained that video review (VAR) was employed unevenl
The World Cup is exposing the contradictions of national identity (opens the original)
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Professor in the Media Studies program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. The World Cup always brings to the fore what is sometimes seen as a pure and mostly straightforward form of identity: national identity. But the 2026 tournament has demonstrated, perhaps as clearly as any global event can, that modern national identity is complex, contested and far from straightforward. The composition of the Moroccan World Cup squad offers a useful case in point. Nineteen of the 26 players on the
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