Articles
A trip to the zoo points the way towards excellence
The positive changes made to the once-faded Al Ain animal park demonstrate how words can be translated into deeds.
The UAE’s next property boom should be built on a solid base
With or without Expo 2020, Dubai is well-positioned to boom again. But this time there must be no property bubble.
Rihanna’s Grand Mosque stunt got headlines, at a cost
Rihanna's provocative pose at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque got her headlines but cost her respect
Terrorists distort Islam to commit their grisly crimes
The terrorists who pervert Islam to kill those with whom they disagree know nothing of the word of God or of humanity.
Arab Spring cost thousands of lives and livelihoods – for what?
What would Mohammed Bouazizi make of the Arab Spring today?
UAE’s under-appreciated salt flats deserve more attention
Increasingly, information about the UAE's history and environment is becoming available. The challenge is to use the new data, to enrich our cultural understanding and ecological sophistication.
Every child in the UAE has the right to a decent education
Special needs children deserve a real commitment to provide them with the education the need.
Time to dig a little deeper into the nation's quarrying industry
The costs in terms of human health are reason enough for closer regulation on a destructive, but necessary, industry.
There are places for all in the UAE's multicultural society
There is no reason for any community in the UAE to disdain any other, and it's too bad when suggestions of such attitudes arise.
Expatriates in a bubble can export a wrong image of the UAE
Too many expatriates in the UAE lack any real understanding of Emirati life and values.
As the UAE remembers its founder, challenge is to live by his legacy
The nickname Baba Zayed was always more than just a popular way of describing the UAE's founder. It really felt as though he was a caring father looking after his children.
The UAE's expatriate mix reflects a much wider world
The first census of the UAE's population was taken three years before federation. The country - and the world around it - has changed immensely since then
Conspiratorial inside and outside the corridors of power
The Muslim Brotherhood's comportment in Egypt, and last week's verdicts in the UAE's sedition trial, offer some interesting conclusions when examined together.
UAE has gone through its own steady and smooth 'Spring'
The UAE's version of the Arab Spring has stretched over more than 40 years of steady, peaceful national development. It's a model others in the region must envy.
Syria's warring parties need to stop fuelling the fire
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that, in the process, he does not become a monster," said Nietzsche. In Syria today, there are monsters on both sides.
