An intimate portrait of life in the world's richest nation ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup.
Just 70 years ago the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater reliant on pearl diving. Today it
is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition. Skyscrapers museums and
futuristic football stadiums rise out of the desert and Ferraris race through the streets. But
in the shadows migrant workers toil in the heat for risible amounts. Inside Qatar reveals how
real people live in this surreal place a land of both great opportunity and great iniquity.
Ahead of Qatar's time in the limelight as host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup anthropologist John
McManus lifts a lid on the hidden worlds of its gilded princes manual laborers and domestic
workers its teachers and policemen culture vultures and thrill seekers. This is the real
Qatar in all its extremes - crushingly unequal and not just a little outrageous but also
diverse riotous pulsing with innovation and life--Publisher's description.
