On MbZ – interesting stuff about his maritime strategy and prospective alliance with China.
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Tag: uae
A Princess Vanishes. A Video Offers Alarming Clues. | NYT
The adult daughter of Dubai’s ruler tried to escape a life of stultifying restrictions. She was captured at sea, forcibly taken back, and has not been heard from since.
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UAE extends compulsory military service to 16 months amid Yemen war
At what point do Emiratis say, no conscription without representation?
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Who Is Behind Trump’s Links to Arab Princes? A Billionaire Friend | NYT
David D. Kirkpatrick
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What Happens in the Gulf Doesn’t Stay in the Gulf
Rob Malley on how Qatar-UAE rivalry is destabilizing Somalia
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Au Yémen, les Emirats arabes unis se rapprochent des Frères musulmans
UAE joins KSA in engaging Yemeni MB party Islah.
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Steve Bannon’s already murky Middle East ties deepen
UAE, Erik Prince, Cambridge Analytica, etc.
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Dubai has glitz but no real sewage system
Quite astonished by this:
The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world. It’s located in Dubai, a city with a lot of other skyscrapers. What Dubai doesn’t have: A central sewage infrastructure that can accommodate the needs of a bunch of skyscrapers.
You see the problem.
To solve the issue trucks come and collect wastewater from separate buildings, and then can queue for up to 24 hours to deliver it to treatment plants. Perhaps before building the next mega-mall, Dubai might invest in the unglamorous basics.
Links for January 14th
Automatically posted links for January 14th:
- Daily Kos: Bush fawns over the U.A.E. – Great takedown of Bush’s appraisal of UAE as “model society”
- Total, Suez, Areva to build two nuclear plants in Abu Dhabi – The Middle East nuclear race that really matters
- Bush Nudges Mideast on Democracy – Story number 129747247 on Bush abandoning democracy talk
- Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel – Tiny Iranian boats not aggressive and posed no threat
- Pursuing happiness behind the veil – The LAT’s Jeffrey Fleishman: king of the mixed metaphor
- Islamists emerge in stifled Tunisia – Returnee mujahideen spell trouble
- Kuwait set to invest as Merrill seeks $4bn – Another big Gulfie investment in top Western financial firm
- EGYPT HOLDS ARMY OFFICERS FOR ‘PLOTTING ISRAEL ATTACKS’ – Now, if you were an Egyptian Islamist in the army, would it be Israel that’s your target?
- EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money IRIN Middle East | Middle East | Egypt | EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money | Early Warning Refugees/IDPs | News Item – Iraqis fleeing death find poverty in Egypt
Del.icio.us links for November 21st
Automatically posted links for November 21st:
- مجمع البØوث الإسلامية يواÙ�Ù‚ علي نشر «الإسلام هو الØل» وكتب إخوانية لـ«البنا» و«مشهور» – Egypt Islamic council authorizes publication of Ikhwan publications – this will have the conspiracy theorists going!
- “U.S. Seeks to Prosecute Pulitzer Prize Winning A.P. Photographer” by Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine) – Pentagon to put AP photog on trial on dubious charges
- خلص ! :: من Ù†ØÙ† – Khalass! campaign in Lebanon, civil society urges politicians to resolve differences
- Beirut Is Not Tehran – Exum and McInerney on why the US should change policy in Lebanon
- Space Age Wudu – Ablution device from the future
- FT.com / World – Sharif hopes to end Saudi exile – Saudis pushing for Sharif as PM in Pakistan, against US wishes
- Islamists Today: Brotherhood Youth: A time bomb – Khalil al-Anani on the generational divide in the MB
- YouTube – Musharraf’s crackdown on media – Al Jazeera report on crackdown on press, possible UAE collaboration
- Meeting Resistance: A film by Steve Connors & Molly Bingham – Movie about the Iraqi underground, has insider footage of insurgent cells