Omar Al-Ubaydli

The Emirates may not have America’s Silicon Valley, but it has a different advantage

The key to the region’s post-oil future lies in millions of individual choices

The global shift away from oil could produce two opposing effects

A differently worded draft could have won 100 per cent of the General Assembly’s votes

The region’s open labour markets do more than support domestic economic activity

The furore over allegations against a black professor suggests research institutes need to prioritise evidence-based enquiry over protecting social objectives

Economists’ petition probes the limits of state action

Too many structural hurdles are coming in the way of making long-term comprehensive policy

It appears as an attractive policy choice whenever supply chains are under stress, but in the long run we are all poorer

A pre-funded sovereign insurance framework might head off the threat of geopolitical blackmail from Tehran

From Covid to the Gulf war, experts keep forecasting a new world order and keep getting it wrong

Lessons learnt during the Covid-19 pandemic are informing the country's response to war

The President still has many tools at his disposal to squeeze trade, including some of the more extreme ones

Social media is a much bigger danger to our brains than AI