2017: Saudi Arabia bans BeIN Sports, huge row over digital piracy and BeoutQ follows... 2022: Saudi Arabia lifts ban and Public Investment Fund wants to buy some of BeIN Sports So what happened? And what does it mean for major players? 📝 mjshrimper
Matt Slater“The Sultan of #Oman Haitham bin Tarik and #SaudiaArabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman watched #Italy beat #England in the #Euro2020 final on Sunday,” Arab News tweeted to its 450,000 followers on the morning after the game.
The Saudi-based news organisation — “the Middle East’s leading English daily” — could never put it like this but the subtext was clear: “Look how normal we are! Just a couple of chaps on the sofa, with nibbles, watching the big match, on my big TV, in my big palace.”And if you zoom in on the picture, you can just make out a familiar logo in the top right-hand corner of the TV.
Because in July 2021, beIN Sports was still banned in Saudi Arabia, as it had been since June 2017. That was when MBS ganged up with his counterparts in Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates to start a diplomatic and economic blockade of Qatar.
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