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About Ali Khaled
Ali Khaled is a journalist and documentary-maker based in Dubai. From 2009 he worked for seven years as a writer and editor at the The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi. Currently a freelancer, he writes mostly for GQ Middle East and The National, and has in the past contributed to other publications such as Al Arabiya English, Arab News, Newsweek Middle East, Esquire, Emirates Airline’s Open Skies Magazine, and These Football Times, among others. He also directed the football documentary “Anwar Roma” (Lights of Rome), the story of the UAE’s qualification to the 1990 World Cup in Italy.
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Right or wrong? Naturalisations spark debate in UAE

May 11, 2020 Ali Khaled

For long, the UAE resisted.  Then, in January 2020, the UAE Football Association declared that two South American players had become eligible to play for the country’s national team. And not just any two South […]

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Qatar 1976: The origins of one of Asia’s great rivalries

December 21, 2019 Ali Khaled

The greatest ever Gulf Cup? Veteran watchers of this most regional, beloved tournament will tell you it was in Qatar. No. Not the 2019 Gulf Cup, nevermind that it proved historic with Bahrain claiming their […]

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‘Lights of Rome’: Remembering UAE’s golden generation

October 28, 2019 Ali Khaled

Thirty years to the day that Emirati football history was created, Ali Khaled looks back on that historic day in Singapore. It would be wrong to say the dream was dying. There had been no […]

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