Best united arab emirates history books according to redditors
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We found 2 Reddit comments discussing the best united arab emirates history books. We ranked the 2 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
My friends have taught English in Abu Dhabi for 5 years and I visited them a few times over this period. The city itself is actually pretty boring, but that's just my opinion. Having a few drinks isn't an issue, but you're not going to find a lot of places besides hotels that are licensed to serve alcohol. My friends limit their drinking to their homes. Public drunkenness will probably get you deported. As others have said, it's hard to really screw up if you are respectful of the culture. Abu Dhabi is a very westernised city - Unlike many other places in the UAE, you will probably see almost no one wearing the keffiyeh/abaya. I know some younger people (25-early 30s) working there but it's always with the mindset of "not forever". My friends eventually got fed up with nonsensical procedures for getting anything done and having almost no rights, and so they are soon moving back to the US. Nothing has ever felt unsafe as an American, and the expat communities are quite substantial (obviously due to a substantial expat population).
This is specific to Dubai but it gives some insight into living in the UAE and I recommend it:
http://www.amazon.com/Dubai-Gilded-Cage-Syed-Ali/dp/0300152175
Heard some rumours about a planned coup or "Palace Coup" in Qatar. Obviously just rumour and speculation at present, but interesting.
Dr Christopher Davidson, is a British expert on the Gulf. He has written several books on the Gulf countries like Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success, Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond and After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monachies
So he knows the region well. He took to Twitter this morning and had this to say.
> Further to this described bout of orchestrated 'Qatar-bashing', I expect Saudi-UAE promised on sidelines of Trump summit that all US....facilities in Qatar would be guaranteed as regime change is carried out (palace coup, or whatever). From the US perspective, this... I think, will help solve current US dilemma on Doha, given Dept Treasury's accumulating evidence on Qatar-linked extremist financing.
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> In this sense, a new (UAE-managed) guard in Doha is a strategy for White House & DOD to head off growing Congress criticism on Qatar. In this context, there is no doubt this is a well organzied, pre-planned, multi-dimension 'readiness' PR campaign, to prepare ground.