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Introduction: Is There a Middle Eastern Sport?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2019

Tamir Sorek
Tamir Sorek*
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Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.; e-mail: [email protected]
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , August 2019 , pp. 465 - 467
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