David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt teaches at Pitzer College in Los Angeles. His books include The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football.

How to Get on TV: World Cup Misgivings

David Goldblatt, 17 November 2022

Visitors​ to the Qatar World Cup, stuck for something to do between games, should consider a visit to the museum of slavery at Bin Jelmood House in Doha, where they will see a large aerial photograph of the capital taken in the late 1940s. Were it not for the crescent-shaped shoreline, the city would be unrecognisable. Then it was a run-down port of around fifteen thousand people, home to...

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