"We were all happy when we saw that, it was a gift from one king to another king," said Mauricio Garcia as he tried on the cloak, but decided the price ... But the moment was welcomed by Arabic social ...

the captain lifted the trophy with his team-mates while wearing a bisht - a traditional Arab cloak - presented to him by Gianni Infantino and the Emir of Qatar Lionel Messi was presented with a ...

“We were all happy when we saw that, it was a gift from one king to another king,” said Mauricio Garcia as he tried on the cloak ... the moment was welcomed by Arabic social media users.

"We were all happy when we saw that, it was a gift from one king to another king," said Mauricio Garcia as he tried on the cloak ... the moment was welcomed by Arabic social media users.

At the World Cup trophy presentation after Argentina’s win over France in the final on Sunday, Lionel Messi was offered a bisht, a traditional Arab cloak, to wear by the emir of Qatar.

in the traditional Arab cloak known as a “bisht”. Reactions from several pundits and journalists have reflected the same racism and Islamophobia that have been prevalent throughout the ...

It is fair to say that the World Cup in Qatar this year has been defined by controversy like no other tournament before. From the controversial decision to grant Qatar the privilege of hosting the ...

Salem watched Argentina beat France in a café near the family's store in Doha's Souq Waqif market, having earlier handed two of the delicate handmade cloaks to World Cup officials – one in ...

From the controversial decision to grant Qatar the privilege of hosting the event despite its poor human rights record to the very last moment when the Emir of Qatar put an Arab cloak on the ...

Doha (AFP) – Watching Sunday's World Cup final, Ahmed al-Salem was more emotional than most football fans when Qatar's emir placed a black and gold cloak over the shoulders of Argentina's ...

In our series of letters from African journalists, Magdi Abdelhadi looks at how football ignited a row about Moroccan identity. It is fair to say that the World Cup in Qatar this year has been ...