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In the years leading up to the 2022 World Cup, the global spotlight was trained relentlessly on Qatar’s ambitious preparations. Stadiums rose from the desert. Roads, hotels, and metros were built. But behind the gleaming infrastructure lay a workforce of hundreds of thousands of migrant labourers—workers whose stories rarely made the front pages.
Amid this backdrop was Abdullah Ibhais, a Jordanian communications expert in his mid‑30s, a father of two young boys, and at one time a rising staffer within the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, the Qatari government body responsible for planning and delivering the World Cup. In 2019, his role involved managing media messaging about Qatar’s preparations, giving him an unusually close view of both the organization’s inner workings and the darker realities behind the World Cup build‑up.
Ibhais’s story did not begin in opposition to the World Cup—it began with a growing awareness of labour issues and a conviction that the truth mattered. In August 2019, tens of thousands of migrant workers employed on World Cup–...
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