AUTHOR=El-Dabt Laila , AlReshaid Faisal , Park Kathleen , AlBuloushi Nour , Al-Enzi Abrar TITLE=Sustainable strategic nation branding through sports: leveraging soft power via mega-event hosting JOURNAL=Frontiers in Sociology VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2025 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1521396 DOI=10.3389/fsoc.2025.1521396 ISSN=2297-7775