Can Saudi Arabia’s 2034 Fifa World Cup survive the Middle East’s escalating wars?
Culture Index
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Relevance
3/25
Freshness
23/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
17/15
Depth
4/15
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When 60,000 football fans gathered in Jeddah for the Arabian Gulf Cup on Tuesday, they inadvertently highlighted the vulnerability of major sports events hosted by Gulf monarchies to the wars raging across the region. The previous day, Saudi Arabia resumed strikes on Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi rebels after a four-year ceasefire collapsed. That truce had originally followed a Houthi attack on an oi
