Mentions (9)
"What xountries like Singapore or the UAE have are explicitly seperate tiers of personhood (citizens, expats, migrant labourers). Expats and migrants in these countries understand that their presence there is temporary and highly conditional."
"Wild times we live in. If someone from the UAE attends University in the UK, they return to the UAE as Islamic radicals"
"Popular indian/pakistani guys who grew up going to an international school in the UAE and were friends exclusively w egyptians who took them to their summer villas in Sahel during the holidays, ended up speaking egyptian arabic fluently, prob has a hot arab gf too"
"Then there are the US proxies in the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Again, the Iranians have already mapped out all the high value targets. These fragile countries rely on oil refineries and desalination plants. A few missile barrages, and half the gulf has no potable drinking water."
"She has the kid (my friend) in the late 90s, and stays posted in Yemen and the UAE for a while before moving back to Langley, Virginia in 2003."
"Many countries do "sportswashing", where they sponsor a team in the hopes of earning good will for the country. Israel isn't unique here in eg the Tour de France, at various times the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, The Basque Lands, etc have done this."
"She spent it on sending her eldest son to be a migrant worker in the UAE and putting her younger son in school."
"the education system is one of the most damning things about the UAE. emiratis receive free education until the university level. otherwise, as a member of the lucky 80% of the population known as expats you go to a private 'international' school - generally 'british' or 'american' schools invariabl"
"What xountries like Singapore or the UAE have are explicitly seperate tiers of personhood (citizens, expats, migrant labourers)."