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Many non-Emiratis will not understand what goes through Emirati hearts, minds and veins when Sheikh Zayed's name is mentioned. He has become a revered figure.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
The UAE's efforts to promote national identity are being compromised by our distribution of national identity documents that blatantly discriminate between citizens.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
The UAE is not and should not be in the business of perpetually denying rumors and speculation. Last week, I sent a friend a typical negative story about the UAE published in Arabic. His one word reply: "Noise."
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
What good is building a zero energy, carbon neutral complex if unethical labor practices are jeopardizing the lives of those who build this architectural wonder?
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
Here are educated young Arab men and women with Western upbringings. They look like us and speak like us but are charged with ambition and hope for the future: They are Arabs 2.0.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
Every Ramadan, Sheikh Mohammed gathers intellectuals from across the Arab world to personally listen to their success stories and to benefit from their wisdom.
BBC NEWS | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
The United Arab Emirates has seized a ship illegally carrying North Korean weapons bound for Iran, diplomatic sources at the UN have said....
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
Iraq is slowly coming out of the woods. It has already shown that it is able to produce more than the one-man shows that we have in many Arab countries today.
GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 09.16.2009 | Home
A high-rise building under construction collapsed in Dubai on Sunday afternoon, though there were no immediate reports of casualties, per the Emirates...
Derek Flood | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
I visited a mosque in Abu Dhabi, the oil soaked capital of the United Arab Emirates today with a friend of mine who lives and works here. I'm in the U...
Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera | Posted 08.30.2009 | Home
More than one million people, the majority of them women and children, are smuggled across international borders to work in near slavery every year, t...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business
Clinton, in her recent tour to Southeast Asia suggested clearly that the United States might well extend a "defense umbrella" protecting its Arab allies should Iran develop a nuclear weapons capability.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 08.24.2009 | World
Should the Gulf countries maintain contacts with Israel if this would make life easier for Palestinians? Could having such ties propel the Middle East peace process forward?
Abe Silk | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Palin's intentions have never been particularly easy to grasp, but now they're even more ambiguous. She's stepped down as governor of Alaska to ... rail against President Obama's energy plan?
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 08.13.2009 | World
What should be clear to everyone in the UAE is that sex outside marriage is against the law. This is not France. What isn't clear is whether the implementation of this law is even-handed.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
Allowing red passport-holders to walk freely through UAE baggage controls must stop, and there must be more scrutiny. My diplomatic peers don't mind having their bags checked through a scanner, neither do I, and nor should anyone with nothing to hide.
WSJ | Spencer Swartz | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green
A few developments Monday suggest some of the world's most inefficient energy users are starting to tighten up how they use their energy resources, wi...
Lily Riahi | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green
After three decades of resistance, the first and only intergovernmental agency to focus solely on renewable energy development is finally ready to launch on July 1st.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
Unlike every other country that took part, the UAE was the only one that was officially represented in two separate pavilions across a canal from each other.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 07.16.2009 | World
In order for the Gulf states to move forward from paying lip service to the Palestinian cause, the first step is to meet Mr. Obama half way.
John Lundberg | Posted 07.15.2009 | Living
It boasts the same live audience, the same glitzy stage, the same young hopefuls bearing their souls before a panel of celebrity judges (only this tim...
Thomas Graham | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
This agreement is significant because it codifies unprecedented steps the UAE is taking to prevent proliferation. It also enables the US to send an important message to the region.
The Independent | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
Heerkani Chohan I The Independent "Fake" pictures are at the heart of a property scandal that could harm the reputation of the once-booming real esta...
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
As North Korea restarts its main nuclear plant and Iran continues to flex its nuclear muscles, a less publicized nuclear renaissance is underway in the Middle East.
The Independent | John Lichfield | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
By John Lichfield at the Independent France took an ambitious step into the cauldron of Gulf politics yesterday, opening a military base, or "peace c...
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Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 11.03.2009 | World