{"id":22,"date":"2021-12-07T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/rgriffin\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:24:42","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/rgriffin\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Peer Reviewed:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>November 2025: <\/strong>\u201cStories Retold: Qatar 2022, Saudi Arabia 2034, and How Gulf Football Is Framed Within a Global Football Discourse.\u201d <em>Social Research: An International Quarterly (Football Politics Special Issue)<\/em>, 92:3, 785-809, DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/974423?casa_token=FUoseaE3Z4sAAAAA:rL97bRDuVZhCYTaiACuoxNhtPT8CyNsX-ta48CW1rpkNrWfo4QD4dvnj4eQJUeyWuiLH-VLElyw\">10.1353\/sor.2025.a974423<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><strong>November<\/strong> 2025: <\/strong>\u201cQatar\u2019s World Cup legacy \u2013 future sport strategy and the creation of a sustainable sport ecosystem.\u201d <em>International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics<\/em>. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/19406940.2025.2583978\">10.1080\/19406940.2025.2583978<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>November 2024:<\/strong> \u201cThe Benign, Brilliant, and Beautiful Soft Power of Qatar\u2019s Paris Saint-Germain.\u201d <em>The Geopolitical Economy of Football: Where Power Meets Politics and Business<\/em>. London: Routledge, 2024. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com.qa\/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;id=5ekyEQAAQBAJ&amp;oi=fnd&amp;pg=PT55&amp;ots=yIofoi26IJ&amp;sig=PzhjBTRqKBTb-urer6PCWFEcasI&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">10.4324\/9781003473671-21<\/a>  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>September 2024<\/strong>: \u201cIdentity Matters: Qatar and Paris Saint-Germain.\u201d <em>Journal of Arabian Studies<\/em>, 13:1, 73-90, DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/21534764.2024.2356290\">10.1080\/21534764.2024.2356290<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>August 2023<\/strong>: \u201cOutside: The Story of Qatari Women\u2019s Cycling.\u201d <em>The International Journal of the History of Sport<\/em>, DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/09523367.2023.2241826\">10.1080\/09523367.2023.2241826<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>July 2022:<\/strong> \u201cHomeland: National Identity Performance in the Qatar National Team.\u201d <em>Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game<\/em>. London: Oxford University Press, 2022. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>April 2022:<\/strong> \u201cRiding in the Desert: Road Cycling in Qatar.\u201d <em>Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East<\/em>. London: Routledge, 2022. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/chapters\/edit\/10.4324\/9781003032915-5\/riding-desert-thomas-ross-griffin\">10.4324\/9781003032915-5<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>September 2021:<\/strong> \u201c\u2019You know that I\u2019m different from them\u2019: Performing national identity in Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud\u2019s <em>The Corsair<\/em>.\u201d <em>Journal of Postcolonial Writing,<\/em> Autumn 2021, DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17449855.2021.1931413?src=&amp;__cf_chl_captcha_tk__=Wm6Lt2HRqNaZ0aCt12FCanSDKBcLNvAKjXNrPzeEkT4-1638873748-0-gaNycGzNDNE\">10.1080\/17449855.2021.1931413<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>August 2021:<\/strong> \u201c\u2018God save us always from the innocent and the good\u2019: American versus European Exceptionalism in Graham Greene\u2019s <em>The Quiet American.<\/em>\u201d <em>Journal of Transatlantic Studies<\/em>. 19, 335-349, DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1057\/s42738-021-00075-0\">10.1057\/s42738-021-00075-0<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>October 2019:<\/strong> \u201cNational Identity, Social Legacy, and Qatar 2022: The Cultural Ramifications of FIFA\u2019s First Arab World Cup.\u201d <em>Soccer &amp; Society. <\/em>20:7-8,&nbsp;1000-1013,&nbsp;DOI:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14660970.2019.1680499\">10.1080\/14660970.2019.1680499<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>August 2018:<\/strong> \u201cHumanity\u2019s Greatest Hope: The American Ideal in Marvel\u2019s <em>The Avengers.<\/em>\u201d <em>Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy and American Popular Culture since 9\/11<\/em>. Oakland, Calif.: U of California Press, 2018. 168-187. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/9780520971028-010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10.1525\/9780520971028-010<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>October 2017:<\/strong> \u201cFootball in the Hands of the Other: Qatar\u2019s World Cup in the British Broadsheet Press.\u201d <em>The Arab World Geographer<\/em>. Summer\/Autumn 2017, 20.2-3. 170-182. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/arabworldgeographer.org\/doi\/abs\/10.5555\/1480-6800.20.2.170\">10.5555\/1480-6800.20.2.170<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>April 2015: <\/strong>\u201cCreative Nonfiction: A Special Kind of Fiction.\u201d <em>Critical Insights: American Creative Non-Fiction<\/em>. Ed. Jay Ellis. New York: Salem Press, 2015. 15-28.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Academic:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>May 2025: <\/strong>\u201cGlobal and Local Narratives: Exploring Doping and Anti-Doping Discourses in Cycling.\u201d <em>Qatar Anti-Doping Research Magazine<\/em>, 1, pp. 27-33.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>April 2023:<\/strong> Review of <em>Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Politics, Controversy, Change<\/em>, by Paul Michael Brannagan and Danyel Reiche in <em>Asian Journal of Sport History &amp; Culture<\/em>. 2022. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/27690148.2023.2186053\">10.1080\/27690148.2023.2186053<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Jan 2021:<\/strong> Review of <em>Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East<\/em>, by Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek (eds.) in<em> The International Journal of the History of Sport<\/em>. 2021. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/09523367.2020.1866387\">10.1080\/09523367.2020.1866387<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>October 2020:<\/strong> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cirs.georgetown.edu\/news-analysis\/national-identity-qatar-men%E2%80%99s-national-football-team-0\">National Identity in the Qatar Men\u2019s National Football Team<\/a>.\u201d World Cup 2022 Research Project, Centre for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University Qatar.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>May 2020:<\/strong> Review of <em>Defending the American Way of Life: Sport, Culture, and the Cold War<\/em>, by Tobey C. Rider and Kevin B. Witherspoon (eds.) in <em>The International Journal of the History of Sport<\/em>. 2020, 37:5-6,&nbsp;509-511. DOI:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/09523367.2020.1743155\">10.1080\/09523367.2020.1743155<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>September 2015: <\/strong>\u201cHistory with a Human Face: Creative Nonfiction and the Oral Histories of the Vietnam War.\u201d <em>War, Literature and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities<\/em>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>August 2015:<\/strong> Review of <em>The Vietnam War: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature<\/em>, by Brenda M. 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