The World Cup and the Fading Promise of Belonging

By Stephanie Shaakaa IMAGINE a dockworker in Liverpool in 1966, a mechanic in Buenos Aires in 1978, a school teacher in Lagos in 1994, and a taxi driver in Casablanca in 2022. They would have spoken different languages, carried different passports, and lived under different governments, yet something deeper than circumstance would have connected them […]