Dr Danyel Reiche is an Associate Professor for Comparative Politics at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. His work focusses on sport policy and politics as well as on climate policies. Reiche’s book “Success and Failure of Countries at the Olympic Games” was published with Routledge in 2016. In 2019, his book “Sport, Politics and Society in the Middle East” (co-edited with Tamir Sorek) will be published with Hurst and Oxford University Press.