UAE Dubai Courts Current Analysis Scholars, Spies and the Gulf Military Industrial Complex A military-industrial complex is growing in the Gulf states. In May 2018, a British researcher Matt Hedges was arrested in the UAE and charged with espionage for researching this industry as a spy, not a scholar. His colleague Shana Marshall explains why. Shana Marshall • 11 min read
MER Article The UAE and the Infrastructure of Intervention Rafeef Ziadah investigates the rise of humanitarian logistics hubs such as Dubai International Humanitarian City, which, although ostensibly humanitarian, have become a key mechanism of intervention and increasingly a central element in the projection of power for the Gulf regimes such as the United Rafeef Ziadah • 9 min read
MER Article The UAE's Space Race At a 2007 Harvard workshop focusing on sustainable architecture in the Persian Gulf, the assembled academics and practitioners quizzed a public relations official from a large Abu Dhabi real estate developer. The workshop participants, among them experts in the field of sustainable development, were Ahmed Kanna, Arang Keshavarzian • 13 min read
MER Article Dubai in a Jagged World Surprisingly, what first strikes one upon landing in Dubai is not the skyscrapers going up at a dizzying pace. It is the sheer bustle of humanity. Ahmed Kanna • 13 min read
Current Analysis Reel Casbah To live the East as film is to be in Dubai in mid-December, perched front-row in the outdoor cafés that dot the Madinat Jumeira Oriental theme park. An integrated hotel, shopping and entertainment “experience” sprawled on the city’s booming beachfront rim, the Madina and its whimsy of stucco battlem Jim Quilty, Peter Lagerquist • 25 min read
