Dr Mahfoud Amara Email & Phone Number

Dr Mahfoud Amara is Associate Professor in Sport Management & Social Sciences College of Education Qatar University . His principal research area is comparative sports policy and management, and has a specific interest in sport in Arab and Muslim contexts (society, history, business, culture, religion, political and philosophical thoughts), having published material on the politics of the Pan-Arab Games, sport in colonial and post-colonial contexts, sport and media in the Arab world, sport and modernisation in the Gulf region; sport development and development through sport. His other research interest is sport and culture, sport policy and management/buisness and marketing of sport. Before moving to Qatar University (Sports Sciences Program at the College of Arts and Sciences) Dr Amara was member of Sport Management and Policy Group and the Centre of Olmypic Studies and Research at Loughborough University. He is Author of a book about Sport in the Arab World, entitled "Sport, Politics and Society in the Arab World", published by Palgrave and Macmillan (2012). He is Co- Editor with Alberto Testa of "Sport in Islam and Muslim Communities", Routledge (December 2015); with John Nauright " Sport in the African World "(Routledge, 2018). Editor of "The Olympic Movement and the Middle East and North Africa Region" (Routledge, 2020). He published numerous papers in refereed international Journals and book chapters edited by leading international experts in the domain of sport and social sciences (policy, management, sociology of sport).Current University webpage: http://qufaculty.qu.edu.qa/mamara/

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