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Articles / The National / June 14, 2009

It’s About Time For the Gulf to Have its Own Special Envoy

Around the Arab world, it is just known as the Obama speech. You don’t need to mention in which venue or country it took place. People just know. Arabs and Muslims who have generally been ruled by autocrats have heard the US president Barack Obama speak directly to them twice in a period of six months. Mr. Obama first addressed us in the Turkish Parliament this spring and then at Cairo University this summer. Twice is two times more than Arab leaders have addressed their own people in many instances. Read more »

Articles / Khaleej Times / June 13, 2009

UAE’s Oneness

From the two-decade old Sharjah Biennial to the weekly Dubai art exhibition openings and the upcoming Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi, the UAE is now challenging the traditional art centres of the Middle East, including Cairo, Tehran, Istanbul and Beirut and is placing itself firmly on the global 
art map. Read more »

Articles / June 7, 2009

This financial crisis is bringing us closer together

How the UAE — the Amazon rainforest of the Middle East — is only going to emerge more unified and hence stronger because of the global financial crisis. Read more »

Articles / Emarat Alyoum / June 7, 2009

الأمازون المطرية و الإمارات العربية رئتا العالم

شهد المنتدى الاقتصادي العالمي حول أميركا اللاتينية، الذي استضافته مدينة ريو دي جانيرو البرازيلية ربيع العام الجاري، جلسة خاصة مدتها نحو ساعتين لمناقشة مستقبل غابة الأمازون المطرية. وضمن فعاليات المنتدى الاقتصادي العالمي حول الشرق الأوسط الذي استضافه الأردن الشهر الماضي، انعقدت جلسة مشابهة على مدى ساعتين أيضاً لمناقشة مستقبل دبي.

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Articles / Emarat Alyoum / June 5, 2009

هل لديك حصانة.. أو شيء تخفيه؟

يحمل أفراد الأسر الحاكمة الست في دولة الإمارات، وهم يُحصون بالآلاف، ويشكّل الشباب نسبة كبيرة منهم؛ جواز سفر دبلوماسياً أحمر اللون، عليه الشعار الوطني للدولة؛ وكذلك الأمر بالنسبة لأعضاء المجلس الوطني الاتحادي، ووزراء الحكومة، والسفراء والمبعوثين، ومستشاري الحكام، وشيوخ العشائر وعائلاتهم.

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Articles / MONEYworks / June 1, 2009

Time to activate the customs union

Sultan on what the Gulf countries should do now that the common currency project has come to a grinding halt with the UAE pulling out. Read more »

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Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is an Emirati columnist and researcher whose articles have appeared in The Financial Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Globe and Mail, as well as other notable publications. Al Qassemi is also a prolific commentator on Arab affairs on Twitter.

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