Volunteering has become common at mega sporting events. For example, there were 15,000 volunteers at the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil and 17,000 in 2018 in Russia. At the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, around 20,000 volunteers will be expected to serve. We discussed the topic of volunteering at the FIFA World Cup 2022 with Nasser Al Mogaiseeb, Volunteer Strategy Manager at the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, and Tania Haddad from the American University of Beirut, an Assistant Professor for Nonprofit Management and a leading scholar on volunteering in the Arab World.

Nasser Al Mogaiseeb is the Volunteer Strategy Manager at the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy in Qatar. He is the Founding member of different voluntary and community initiatives, including the Youth Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Sport in Qatar.

Tania Haddad is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Nonprofit Management at the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut(AUB). Her research focuses on the fields of civil society, nonprofit management, nonprofit education, volunteering, disaster management, and e-government. Her research has appeared in many academic journals, including the International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Democracy and Security, and The Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership. She was a Member of the Expert Group responsible for “Reimagining volunteerism for the 2030 Agenda” and collaborated with the International Association for Volunteer Efforts (IAVE) on their assessment of corporate volunteering in the Arab Nations region.

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