32. The National , 14 May 2009.
33. The UAE’s federal armed forces were then called the Union Defence Force.
34. ( in Arabic ) Obaid, Nawaf E., The Foreign Policy of the United Arab Emirates (Beirut: Majd, 2004), p. 155.
35. Heard-Bey, Frauke, From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates (London: Longman, 1996), pp. 511–513; Davidson, Christopher M., Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success (London: Hurst, 2008), chapter 5.
36. Hawley, Donald, The Emirates: Witness to a Metamorphosis (Norwich: Michael Russell, 2007), p. 30.
37. Jane’s Defense Weekly , 7 February 2007.
38. The National , 14 May 2009; BBC News, 28 March 2008.
39. BBC News, 28 March 2008.
40. The National , 22 July 2011.
41. WAM , 22 August 2011.
42. Article 7 of the 2005 constitution, as cited by Wright, Steven, ‘Qatar’ in Davidson, Christopher M. (ed.), Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies (London: Hurst, 2011).
43. The Doha Agreement was reached on May 21 2008.
44. Broadcast on Al-Jazeera , 6 August 2007.
45. BBC News, 4 March 2009; CNN , 23 February 2010.
46. Capital Eritrea , 14 July 2011.
47. Somaliland Press , 7 June 2010.
48. Anthony, John Duke, Arab States of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum (Washington DC: Middle East Institute, 1975), p. 152.
49. Heard-Bey (1996), pp. 388–391.
50. Amr Moussa.
51. The National , 28 July 2008; Mutawwa (2005), p. 99.
52. Oxford Business Group , ‘Abu Dhabi: The Report 2007’, p. 25.
53. Reuters, 11 May 2007; BBC News, 13 May 2007.
54. Gulf News , 18 July 2008.
55. The National , 8 August 2008.
56. BBC News, 8 May 2010.
57. Daily Mail , 4 July 2012.
58. The Guardian , 30 December 2011.
59. Associated Press , 25 September 2011.
60. BBC Sport, 10 December 2010.
61. ESPN , 31 May 2011.
62. The Essex Hotel.
63. The latter of which was acquired in 2006 for $800 million.
64. Daily Mail , 16 March 2010.
65. BBC Sport , 5 October 2004.
66. Agence France Presse, 9 July 2008.
67. The National , 22 July 2008.
68. Emirates 24/7 , 17 March 2008.
69. International Herald Tribune , 2 September 2008.
70. Garry Cook.
71. As cited by Dorsey, James, Mideastposts , 7 October 2011.
72. The Guardian , 27 September 2009.
73. The Daily Telegraph , 10 January 2011.
74. The Daily Telegraph , 8 November 2011.
75. National Public Radio , 7 May 2006.
76. Foreign Policy , 12 April 2011.
77. Foreign Policy , 5 January 2012.
78. Manchester Evening News , 3 March 2011.
79. The National , 15 June 2011.
80. Agence France Presse, 18 December 2010.
81. VG Nett , 19 October 2010.
82. New York Times , 7 March 2008; Financial Times , 17 December 2008.
83. Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority press release, 30 April 2007.
84. Vanity Fair , 22 July 2010.
85. The Guardian , 10 August 2006.
86. WAM , 24 May 2009.
87. AME Info, 11 June 2007; Tourism Development Investment Company press release, 25 July 2009.
88. The Daily Telegraph , 31 October 2011.
89. Human Rights Watch, 17 March 2011.
90. The Guardian , 16 May 2011.
91. The Al-Qasimi Building was built in 2000.
92. London School of Economics press release 19 December 2006.
93. The Khalifa Building was built in 1997.
94. Mubarak Al-Abdullah Al Sabah.
95. According to the official KFAS website.
96. The Spectator , 1 April 2011.
97. Oxford University Gazette , No. 4857, Vol. 139, 16 October 2008.
98. Khaleej Times , 26 February 2011.
99. The Daily Telegraph , 6 January 2008.
100. National Observer , No. 81, December 2009.
101. The National , 14 May 2009.
102. Gulf News , 15 May 2009.
103. According to a Harvard Divinity School press release from 15 September 2000 the appointee was to focus on ‘broad teachings on the history, tenets, and practice of the Islamic faith and their implications for local and global societies’ and provide ‘leadership and direction for the wider, interdisciplinary program of Islamic Studies’.
104. The University of Connecticut had planned to open a branch campus in Dubai, but pulled out on the grounds of alleged anti-Semitism. Gulf News , 7 May 2007.
105. Washington Post , 15 February 2008.
106. Harvard University press release, 29 September 2010.
107. For example Michigan State University which closed down its campus in Dubai in 2008 after serious financial losses. New York Times , 27 March 2012.
108. Khaldun Khalifa Al-Mubarak, the chairman of Abu Dhabi’s Executive Affairs Authority and in some respects the crown prince’s right hand man.
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