It’s not easy for non-Western countries to be modern and rich without demands to be more like the West. Similar conflicts and dilemmas will play out elsewhere for decades to come.
Its social practices should be judged in comparison to the Middle East, not Western sensitivities.
The Qatar Museum Authority has an annual budget of $1 billion to spend on art. The country’s media network, Al Jazeera, bankrolled by the Emir since 1996, was the first independent news network in the region.The psychological underpinnings of opprobrium against Qatar is often white guilt when the realities of global inequality are laid bare.
The last-minute backflip around serving alcohol in stadiums is a pointer that the country’s elite had reached a boundary in how much it was willing to give up its tradition and identity in pursuit of international status. Alcohol is banned in the Koran. Qatar, like Saudi Arabia, practices a Wahhabi sect of traditional, literalist Islam.
“Qatar’s new labour reforms are some of the most significant to date and could, if carried out effectively, considerably improve migrant workers’ living and work conditions,” said Michael Page, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.But for the South Asian labourers living in shipping containers who helped build the gleaming stadiums with solar-powered cooling or its 80,000 hotel rooms, they saw an opportunity that was not present in their homelands.
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