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“We Are mansaf, You Are mulūkhīya”: Symbols and Meanings of Football in Jordan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2019

Dag Tuastad
Dag Tuastad*
Affiliation:
Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; e-mail: [email protected]
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , August 2019 , pp. 472 - 474
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References

NOTES

1 Tuastad, Dag, “‘A Threat to National Unity’. Football in Jordan: Ethnic Divisive or a Political Tool for the Regime?” The International Journal of the History of Sport 10 (2014): 1–15Google Scholar.

2 Mustafa Bala, editor of the Wihdat fanzine al-Riyadi al-Wihdat, interview with the author, Amman, May 2014.

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8 Wihdat supporters, interview with author's field assistant Moushira Abu Shemesh, Amman, December 2018.