{"id":97,"date":"2016-03-30T06:55:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2026-02-28T14:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:02:31","slug":"conferences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Conferences\/ Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/Mahfoud-Amara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"367\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/Mahfoud-Amara.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"540\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/Mahfoud-Amara.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/conferences\/mahfoud-amara-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/Mahfoud-Amara.jpg 367w, http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/Mahfoud-Amara-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/Mahfoud-Amara-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/Mahfoud-Amara-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/IMG_20171203_221631_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"411\" height=\"578\" src=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/IMG_20171203_221631_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"539\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/IMG_20171203_221631_resized.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/conferences\/img_20171203_221631_resized\/\" class=\"wp-image-539\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/IMG_20171203_221631_resized.jpg 411w, http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/IMG_20171203_221631_resized-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/10298214_810231779121241_3262987454554669179_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/10298214_810231779121241_3262987454554669179_o-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"537\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/10298214_810231779121241_3262987454554669179_o.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/conferences\/10298214_810231779121241_3262987454554669179_o\/\" class=\"wp-image-537\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/10298214_810231779121241_3262987454554669179_o-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/10298214_810231779121241_3262987454554669179_o-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/10298214_810231779121241_3262987454554669179_o-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mamara\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2021\/05\/10298214_810231779121241_3262987454554669179_o.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\">Invited Speaker\/Keynote<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>1- <\/strong>Invited to expert panel on: &#8220;Sport, State, and Society&#8221; in the MENA region, organized by Georgetown University in Qatar, the School of Foreign Service . 12-13 December, 2017. https:\/\/cirs.georgetown.edu\/research\/faculty-research\/sports-society-and-state-middle-east<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">2- &nbsp;Mahfoud Amara, Postcolonial Approach to the study of Sport in the Arab World. Sport and Society Symposium. Organized by Centre of Humanities and Social Sciences, 11<sup>th<\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> May 2016. Qatar University<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>3<\/strong>-Guest Lecturer: Sport, Media and Politics in the Arab Region . Sport and Media Class led by Dr Amy Sanders. Northwestern University (Qatar), 26<sup>th<\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> May, 2016. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>4<\/strong>-Invited speaker at HEC Paris in Qatar on \u201c Sport and Knowledge-base economy in Qatar- Challenges and opportunities\u201d, Knowledge based Economy in the Gulf: with a focus on Qatar. Organised by Prof. Laoucine Kerbache and Dr Remi Piet. 25<sup>th<\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">-27<\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> October 2016.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;5-Invited keynote speaker: Reflections on Muslim (over)visibility in sport. International Workshop Muslims, Sport and Physical Activity, December 7, 2015. Paus College Adrianus VI \u2013 University of Leuven, Belgium.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>6<\/strong>-Guest lecturer- \u201cOlympic Ideology Global and Local; Past and Present\u201d- Qatar Olympic Academy- May 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>7<\/strong>&#8211; Speaker at Josoor Institute Workshop- \u201c Sport development and sport for development\u201d. Professional Development Workshop Marketing and PR for Sports and Major Events. Co-organized with Sport Sciences Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, 29<sup>th<\/sup> &nbsp;February \u2013 01 March 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>8<\/strong>&#8211; Invited&nbsp;Guest lecturer:&nbsp; Sports, Politics, and Society in the Arab World (via Skype), Monday, November 16, 2015. The talk is associated with Bill Rosenberg&#8217;s course on the Politics of Sport and is part of the University&#8217;s Global Classroom Initiative<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>9<\/strong>&#8211;<span style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Invited to speak at the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union\u2019s (2015) conference on Sport and Physical Activity for the development of Human Capital, held 16th February 2015&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: ArialMT; font-size: small;\">&nbsp;<\/span>at the National Library of Lativia, Riga. I was also Moderator of a Workshop on Sport and Social Environment and contributed to the drafting of the conference\u2019s general conclusion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.izm.gov.lv\/images\/presidency\/Report_international_sport_conference.pdf\">See link. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>10<\/strong>&#8211; Invited Speaker, Festival of Ideas Panel Event: Playing and Praying? Sport and Religion in Britain Today, The Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge, <em>Ed Kessler (Chair), Michael Berkowitz, Mahfoud Amara, Omar Salha, Salma Bi, Adrian Cassidy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woolf.cam.ac.uk\/events\/details?year=2014&amp;month=10&amp;day=22\">See Link. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>11-<\/strong> Invited Speaker, Workshop &#8220;BODY, SPORT AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES&#8221; (Universit\u00e9 de Lausanne, 5- 6 June 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>12<\/strong>&#8211; Invited speaker, presented a paper on &#8220;\u2018Doping as Fatwa\u2019 presenting a framework for the study of drugs and body, including doping and anti-doping in sport, Islamic ethics and Muslim societies&#8221;.&nbsp;A two-day symposium titled \u2018The History of Doping and Anti-Doping\u2019, Anti-Doping Lab in Qatar, 5-6 May 2013. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/upi20130505-093008-9825\/\">See Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>13-<\/strong> Invited Speaker,&nbsp;presented on the Discourse on Doping and&nbsp;Anti-Doping in the Arab&nbsp;World, &nbsp;4th Annual Symposium titled \u201cAnti-Doping; Sport Integrity &amp; Public Health\u201d, Anti-Doping Lab in Qatar, 6&amp;7 May 2014, Doha,&nbsp; Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>14<\/strong>-Invited to participate in an expert panel on the role of Sport Security and Integrity in Economic&nbsp; Development, as part of the 2013 ICSS Sport Expert Summit. The event organised by the International&nbsp; Centre of Sport Security (based in Doha, Qatar) in partnership with the Austrian Ministry of&nbsp; Interior, took place in Vienna at Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Inneres from the 16th-17th May 2013 to&nbsp; explore issues and challenges in sport security, safety and integrity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>15-&nbsp;<\/strong>Invited  speaker, &nbsp;Sport Policy in Small Nations: Insights from the Middle East and North Africa region\u201d, the Future&nbsp; of Sport in Small Nations Symposium, 21-23 November 2012, New Zealand\u2019s National School of Physical&nbsp; Education, University of Otago,&nbsp; Dunedine. <a href=\"http:\/\/physed.otago.ac.nz\/hosted\/sportinsmallnations2012\/programme.html\">http:\/\/physed.otago.ac.nz\/hosted\/sportinsmallnations2012\/programme.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>16-<\/strong> Invited to participate in a Working Group hosted by the Centre for International and Regional&nbsp; Studies (CIRS) at the Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar. The Working Group,&nbsp; which gathered together a small number of renowned scholars focusing on \u201cSocial Currents in the&nbsp; Maghreb\u201d, held in Washington DC, on January 7th and 8th, 2014.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/cirs.georgetown.edu\/424771.html\">http:\/\/cirs.georgetown.edu\/424771.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>17<\/strong>&#8211; Invited to a Panel on Equality and Ethnicity (Session III); Experts conference\u2014 Ensuring equal&nbsp; chances through sport participation as a social policy element, City Hall, Wroc\u0142aw (Poland) , July&nbsp; 18-19, 2011, organised by the Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Sport and&nbsp; Tourism, Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>18<\/strong>&#8211; Invited speaker: Mahfoud Amara, &#8216;Football: The New Battlefield on Business in Algeria&#8217;, 15 November 2010, as part of&nbsp; the seminar series &#8216;The Modern Maghreb: Politics, People and Energy&#8217; organised by the Centre for&nbsp; the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), Durham University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>19<\/strong>&#8211; Invited speaker: Mahfoud Amara and Ian Henry &#8211; Sport, Muslim Identities and Cultures in the UK: Case Studies of&nbsp; Sport, Religiosity and Policy in Leicester and Birmingham, \u201cJourn\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9tude europ\u00e9enne, Dialogue(s)&nbsp; interculturel(s) par le sport ? Mod\u00e8les europ\u00e9ens, cat\u00e9gorisations et controverses scientifiques\u201d,&nbsp; organised by Sport and Social Sciences Research Group, University of Strasbourg, in partnership&nbsp; with la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration Europ\u00e9enne des Universit\u00e9s du Rhin sup\u00e9rieur (Eucor), 8 November 2010,Strasbourg, France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>20<\/strong>&#8211; Invited Speaker: Mahfoud Amara, Veiled Women Athletes in the 2008 Beijing Olympics: A Media Account. International Conference:&nbsp; Nationalism, Orientalism and Globalism: the Asian Games, Asian Sports and the Rising Asia, December&nbsp; 6th and 7th 2010, Chengdu Sport University, China. The conference was jointly organized with&nbsp; Chengdu Sport University, The International Journal of the History of Sport (IJHS) and and the&nbsp; School of Asian Studies at University College Cork, Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>21-<\/strong> Invited speaker: International Symposium- Internationalism in the Olympic Movement: Idea and Reality between States,&nbsp; Cultures and People, Institute of Sport Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 22nd of May&nbsp; 2009. Presented a paper on &#8220;Olympic Sport and Internationalism Debates in the Arab-Muslim World: Between &#8216;Modernity&#8217; and &#8216;Authenticity'&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>22<\/strong>&#8211; Invited Speaker: A two-day international conference on the role of regions in building a legacy of sports participation and excellence, Organized by Kurdistan Regional Government in partnership with Sport&nbsp; Council Wales, Cardiff, 9-10 December 2008. Presented a paper on The role of sport in post-conflict nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\">International&nbsp;Conferences<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">23- Amara, M. (2015) Sport Labor Migrant Communities from the Maghreb in the GCC, ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport, June 9-12 in Paris France<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">24- Amara, M, (2013) The Business of Sport in the Arabian Peninsula: the global-local nexus. In Sport&nbsp; and Nationalism in Asia &#8211; Power, Politics, and Identity, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">25- Garcia Garcia, B and Amara, M (2012) The New &#8216;reconquista&#8217; of Europe through Football: Arab<br>Investment in Top Professional Clubs. In UACES 42nd annual conference, Passau (Germany), pp.1-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">26- Amara, Mahfoud. &#8220;Sport, Internationalism and Regionalism Debates in the Arab-Muslim World: between&nbsp; &#8216;Modernity&#8217; and &#8216;Authenticity'&#8221;. Le sport dans les pays du Moyen Orient et d\u2019Afrique du Nord.&nbsp; Enjeux sociaux et symboliques (Panel 073), organised by Prof. Michel Raspaud, The World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies, Barcelona 19 -24 July 2010, IEMed European Institute of the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">27- Amara, Mahfoud and Henry, Ian. (2010) \u201cSport, Muslim Identities and Cultures in the UK: Case studies of Leicester and Birmingham\u201d, RC 27 Sociology of Sport, XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Sociology on the move, 11-17 July, Gothenburg, Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">28- Discourses on Modern Sport and Values in a Non-western Context: a Case Study of Algeria. ESMQ&nbsp; Methodology Workshop Discourse in Sport Management Research Application and Procedures, 15th EASM&nbsp; Congress, 13th September 2007, Turin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">29- Amara, M., &#8221;Modernisation thesis, hegemony theory, modern sport and Olympic Games&#8221;, 8th&nbsp; International Postgraduate Seminar on Olympic Studies of the International Olympic Academy, IOC&nbsp; Publications, Ancient Olympia, Greece, May 2000, pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">30- Amara, M., &#8221;Global Sport and local identity: Case study of the Algerian&#8217;s government project for&nbsp; professional sport&#8221;, 1er Colloque International de Management du Sport. Le Sport comme Vecteur de&nbsp; D\u00e9veloppement Economique et Social, Facult\u00e9 des Sciences du Sport\/UFR &#8211; STAPS, Dijon &amp; Moroccan Ministry of Youth and Sport-IRFC, Rabat-Sal\u00e9, March 2002, pp, [CD-ROM].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">31- Amara, M., &#8221;A case study of the Algerian Government&#8217;s Project for Professional Sport&#8221;,&nbsp; Proceedings of the 7th annual congress of the European College of Sports Science, Koskolou, M.&nbsp; (ed.), Pashalidis Medical Publisher, European College of Sports Science, Athens, Greece, July 2002,&nbsp; p. 175.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">32- Amara, M., &#8221;Sport, Arab nationalism and the Pan-Arab Games&#8221;, Proceedings of the 7th annual&nbsp; congress of the European College of Sports Science, Koskolou, M. (ed.), Pashalidis Medical&nbsp; Publisher, European College of Sports Science, Athens, Greece, July 2002, p. 68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">33- Amara, M., &#8221;Global Sport and Local Identity: Case study of the Algerian Government&#8217;s Project for&nbsp; Professional Sport&#8221;, L&#8217;Algerie: 40 ans apr\u00e8s (1962-2002). Bilan d&#8217;une ind\u00e9pendance Colloque international, Lancaster University, July 2002, pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">34- Amara, M., &#8221;Professionalism of Sport between Tradition and Modernity, a Case Study of the Algerian&nbsp; government&#8217;s project for Professional Sport&#8221;, 10th EASM Congress, Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, Finland, September 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">35- Amara, M., &#8221;Professionalisation of Football in Non-Western Context: Globalisation, Local modernity&nbsp; and Post modernity&#8221;, 11th EASM Congress, Stockholm University College of Phys Ed and Sports, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">36- Henry, I.P., Liang, J., Uchiumi, K. and Amara, M., &#8221;The Roles of the State in the Changing&nbsp; Governance of Professional Soccer: Four Case Studies&#8221;, 11th EASM Congress, Stockholm University,&nbsp; 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">37- Amara, M., Henry, I.P. and Aquilina, D., &#8221;Sport and multiculturalism, between universalism and&nbsp; particulism: Sport and integration of Muslim minorities in Europe&#8221;, Proceedings of the 9th annual&nbsp; congress of the European College of Sport Science, Clermont-Ferrand, France, July 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">38- Aquilina, D., Henry, I.P. and Amara, M., &#8221;Young athletes and educational rights in European nation&nbsp; states&#8221;, Proceedings of the 9th annual congress of the European College of Sports Science,&nbsp; Clermont-Ferrand, France, July 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">39- Henry, I.P., Amara, M. and Aquilina, D., &#8221;Philosophies of integration and assimilation in sport&nbsp; policies in European nation states&#8221;, Proceedings of the 9th annual congress of the European&nbsp; College of Sport Science, Clermont-Ferrand, France, July 2004, pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">40-Amara, M., Henry, I.P. and Aquilina, D., &#8221;Toward a New Approach for the Study of Sport and Muslim&nbsp; Communities in Europe&#8221;, Leisure and the Young Migrant: Identity, Integration and Community, 1st&nbsp; World Leisure European Conference, Malm\u00f6, Sweden, May 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">41-&nbsp;Aquilina, D., Amara, M., Henry, I.P., Coalter, F. and Taylor, J., &#8221;The Roles of sport and&nbsp; education in the social inclusion of Asylum Seekers and Refugees&#8221;, Leisure and the Young Migrant:&nbsp; Identity, Integration and Community, 1st World Leisure European Conference, Malm\u00f6, Sweden, May&nbsp; 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">42-&nbsp;Amara, M., &#8221;A modernisation project from above? 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