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Zinedine Zidane headbutt statue to be re-installed in Qatar ahead of 2022 World Cup
A statue immortalising Zinedine Zidane's headbutt during the 2006 World Cup final will be re-installed in Qatar after it was removed in 2013 amid a domestic backlash, the head of Qater Museums said on Monday.
The 5-metre bronze work called "Coup de tete" was removed days after its unveiling after some people in the conservative Muslim country criticised it for promoting idolatry and others said it encouraged violence.
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"Evolution happens in societies. It takes time and people may criticize something to begin with, but then understand it and get used to it," said Qatar Museums Chairperson Sheikha al-Mayassa al-Thani, who is the sister of Qatar's ruling emir.
She said the original public location of the statue was "not right" and that the sculpture would be remounted at a new sports museum in Doha, which is hosting the World Cup later this year.
Some conservative Muslims believe artistic depictions of human forms should be forbidden to avoid idolatry. Although statues are on public display in many Muslim countries, they are less common in the Arab Gulf.
The sculpture by Algerian-born French artist Adel Abd
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I know about lockdowns and quarantines and isolation. I know about them because as a young Lebanese man growing up in the Noughties, I spent a good few nights in our bathroom huddled with my family. Back then, it was of course not coronavirus we were hiding from, but the Israeli shelling by air and sea of the Lebanese capital as war raged on.
It was the summer of 2006. Italy had just won the World Cup in Berlin and Zinedine Zidane of France had been sent off in the final for headbutting the Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the chest. The Italian had insulted Zidane’s mother or sister (that much is still unclear). My father was fond of repeating the already rapidly tiring half-joke: “You do not insult an Arab man’s sister/mother.” This was in reference to Zidane’s Algerian heritage. My father was fond of meandering jokes like these. His highlight of the year, leading up to the Israeli bombardment of Beirut and the World Cup final, was when Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, accidentally shot a man while out hunting. When George W Bush had a pair of shoes thrown at him by an Iraqi journalist at a press conference, a couple of years later, my father could not get enough of the footage, doubling over in laughter and only sparingly catching his breath.
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