UAE

Dubai will build the largest Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project on a single site in the world

The Seychelles Plot: Mueller on the UAE Role in Russian Influence-Peddling with Trump and Kushner

The Mueller report sheds further light on the infamous Seychelles meeting in January, 2017, which appears to have aimed at establishing a back channel for the Trump administration to the circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin, brokered by Mohammed Bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates. That is, this story is not about pre-election collusion […]

Saudi Arabia

DC “Think Tanks” are up to Their Necks on Foreign Money: Shouldn’t it be Public?

Ben Freeman

Under current law, it is perfectly legal for think tanks that receive funding from foreign governments to also work with foreign agents

Feminism

Social Media Ridicule: Emirates’ Gender Equality Award Winners All Men

TeleSur

“Wow really nailed the diversity there. One of those dudes was wearing grey”

UAE

Dubai New Year 2019 Fireworks & Laser Show at Burj Khalifa

contributors

Dubai New Year 2019 Full Fireworks & Laser Show at Burj Khalifa

UAE

Emirates Bows to Int’l Pressure, Releases Jailed UK Ph.D. Student

AFP

Hunt said on BBC radio of the spying charges: “We have never seen any evidence that they are true”

UAE

British Universities Boycott United Arab Emirates over Student ‘Spying’ Life Sentence

Middle East Monitor

Staff at Birmingham University have voted to boycott their campuses in the Emirates

UAE

United Arab Emirates Prince Targeted by Lawsuits over Yemen Atrocities

AFP

Nearly 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen since the Saudi-led intervention began

UAE

United Arab Emirates Court Sentences British Student to Life for Espionage

AFP

by Mohamad Ali Harissi Dubai (AFP) – A United Arab Emirates court sentenced British student Matthew Hedges to life in jail on spying charges on Wednesday, prompting a “shocked” Britain to warn of repercussions for relations with its longstanding Gulf ally. Hedges, a 31-year-old PhD student, had protested his innocence ever since his arrest at […]