79. Reuters, 29 June 2011.
80. Qaboos bin Said Al-Said.
81. BBC News, 27 February 2011; Reuters, 9 April 2011.
82. Gulf News , 9 April 2011; Oman Daily , 8 April 2011.
83. Voice of America , 22 April 2011.
84. Gulf News , 8 May 2011.
85. Al-Arabiya , 14 May 2011.
86. Gulf News , 20 June 2011.
87. Reuters, 29 June 2011.
88. Gulf News , 22 July 2011.
89. Referring to Omantel.
90. Youssef Al-Haj.
91. Al-Quds Al-Arabi , 12 August 2011.
92. The National , 11 March 2011.
93. Gulf News , 17 July 2012.
94. The Guardian , 23 January 2012.
95. Al-Basheer News , 6 February 2011.
96. Washington Post , 20 April 2012. Quoting Waleed Abu Alkhair.
97. Nolan, May 2011.
98. Abdul-Aziz Al-Wahhabi.
99. Reuters, 10 February 2011.
100. Reuters, 22 April 2011.
101. Reuters, 22 April 2011.
102. Nolan, May 2011.
103. Arabian Business , 25 May 2011.
104. Jakarta Globe , 19 June 2011. Quoting Ali Al-Ahmad.
105. Bandar bin Sultan Al-Saud.
106. Yousaf Raza Gillani.
107. Al-Jazeera English , 30 July 2011.
108. Human Rights Watch, 3 May 2011.
109. Al-Watan , 5 June 2011.
110. Fadhil Makki Al-Manasif.
111. Mustafa Al-Badr Al-Mubarak and Husain Kazhim Al-Hashim.
112. Human Rights Watch, 3 May 2011.
113. Hamza Kashgari.
114. The Independent , 13 February 2012.
115. Not to be confused with Muhammad Al-Qahtani, the alleged twentieth 9/11 hijacker, who is currently in detention in Guantanamo Bay.
116. BBC News, 22 July 2011.
117. Agence France Press, 8 December 2010.
118. Arab Times , 5 January 2011.
119. Agence France Presse, 6 February 2011.
120. The Peninsula , 18 January 2011.
121. Al-Arabiya , 28 June 2011.
122. Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jabar Al-Sabah.
123. Gulf News , 14 April 2011.
124. Bahrain News Agency press release, 2 May 2011.
125. Kuwait Times , 5 June 2011.
126. Agence France Presse, 17 September 2011.
127. BBC News, 16 November 2011.
128. Agence France Presse, 17 September 2011.
129. Gulf News , 21 November 2011.
130. BBC News, 28 November 2011.
131. Jabar Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.
132. BBC News, 3 February 2011.
133. Bloomberg , 26 April 2012.
134. The Guardian , 10 January 2010.
135. Referring to Etisalat.
136. See Davidson, Christopher M., ‘The Strange Case of the UAE’s WWW.UAEHEWAR.NET’, Current Intelligence blog, 15 November 2010.
137. Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan.
138. Foreign Policy , 14 April 2011.
139. Sourced from the blog of Ahmad Mansour Al-Shehhi, 6 April 2011.
140. Reuters, 11 May 2011.
141. Reuters, 8 April 2011.
142. Foreign Policy , 14 April 2011.
143. CNN , 13 April 2011.
144. Gulf News , 29 May 2011.
145. Gulf News , 29 April 2011
146. In 1968 over half of the Zaab (Al-Zaabi) tribe, most of whom resided on the Jazirah al-Hamra near to Ra’s al-Khaimah decamped en masse and moved to Abu Dhabi island, where the ruler had promised them prime plots of land. Davidson (2009), chapter 3.
147. Gulf News , 29 April 2011.
148. The National , 1 December 2011.
149. Arabian Business , 17 April 2011.
150. New York Times , 14 May 2011.
151. The Arabic Human Rights Network press release, 14 February 2012.
152. The UAE reform movement — sometimes referred to as ‘Al-Islah’—is indigenous, founded in 1974, and is not affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood.
153. Associated Press , 22 December 2011.
154. Salah Al-Dhafairi.
155. Associated Press , 12 March 2012.
156. Ahmed Abd Al-Khaleq.
157. Al-Jazeera News , 16 July 2012.
158. Sultan bin Kayed Al-Qasimi, a member of the Ra’s al-Khaimah ruling family. He was held under house arrest at the ruler’s palace.
159. Issa Khalifa Al-Suwaidi.
160. Muhammad Al-Mansoori.
161. Most notably Salim Hamdoon Al-Shehhi, Abdulsalam Darwish, and Muhammad Al-Roken.
162. Human Rights Watch, 1 August 2012; Emirates Centre for Human Rights, 31 July 2012.
163. For example Rashid bin Muhammad Al-Roken.
164. Muhammad Rashid Al-Kalbani, an Omani passport holder.
165. Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani.
166. Foreign Policy , 12 April 2011.
167. New York Times , 4 April 2011.
168. Voice of America , 14 January 2012.
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