QATAR 🎧 Hidden Stories from the World’s Richest Nation 🎧 Inside Qatar Audiobook

An intimate portrait of life in the world’s wealthiest nation ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup. This is the real Qatar in all its extremes—crushingly unequal, not just a little outrageous, but also diverse, riotous, and pulsing with innovation and life.

Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition. Skyscrapers, museums, and futuristic football stadiums rise out of the desert, and Ferraris race through the streets. But in the shadows, migrant workers toil in the heat for risible amounts.

Inside Qatar reveals how real people live in this surreal place, a land of great opportunity and great iniquity. Ahead of Qatar’s time in the limelight as host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, anthropologist John McManus lifts a lid on the hidden worlds of its gilded princes, manual laborers and domestic workers, its teachers and policemen, culture vultures and thrill seekers.