Thomas Ross Griffin

Thomas Ross Griffin

Associate Professor of American & postcolonial literature

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Media

  • March 2023: Quoted in “Analysis: The Man Utd bid and Qatar’s global sporting intent” by Hafsa Adil. Al Jazeera.
  • December 2022: Quoted in “Qatar’s $300 Billion World Cup Is Headed for an Epic Comedown” by Giles Turner and David Hellier. Bloomberg.
  • December 2022: Quoted in “Qatar World Cup: Final whistle blows on pop-up Stadium 974” by AP Muhammed Afsal. Middle East Eye.
  • November 2022: Quoted in “The World Cup has brought some change to Qatar. Will it last?” by Eoin McSweeney and Mohammed Abdelbary. CNN.
  • November 2022: Crusaders banned from World Cup. (Television Interview). Al Jazeera.
  • November 2022: Are criticisms of Qatar hosting the 2022 World Cup justified? (Television Interview). Inside Story, Al Jazeera.
  • November 2022: Quoted in “Shoomilah, Shoomilah: Rise of Qatar’s unofficial football anthem” by AP Muhammed Afsal. Al Jazeera.
  • November 2022: Quoted in “World Cup: how Qatar’s footballers are helping to forge Gulf state’s identity” by Josh Noble. Financial Times.
  • November 2022: “Qatar 2022, Mancano tre giorni all’inizio dei Mondiali di calico (Radio Interview). RAI1.
  • October 2022: Qatar World Cup 2022 (Television Interview). Al Jazeera.
  • December 2021: What will diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics achieve? (Television Interview). Inside Story, Al Jazeera.
  • August 2021: How much of politics is involved in the Olympics? (Television Interview). Inside Story, Al Jazeera.
  • August 2021: Qatar, the 2022 World Cup and the country’s status as a footballing ‘other’. (Interview). The Football & Society Podcast.
  • July 2020: “Race Issues in American Sports” (Television Interview). Al Jazeera.
  • May 2020:  “Doha vs Riyadh: Who will win bid to host the Asian Games?” (Op-Ed), Middle East Eye.
  • June 2018: “Qatar Carves National Identity out of Saudi-led Blockade.” (Op-Ed), Middle East Eye.
  • May 2018: “Making Qatar 2022 a 48-Team Tournament is Not a Good Idea.” (Op-Ed), Al Jazeera.