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Abdullah Al-Arian
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Abdullah Al-Arian is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University in Qatar. He is the author of Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt and the editor of Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game. He is also coeditor of the Critical Currents in Islam page on the Jadaliyya e-zine.