Category Archives: United Arab Emirates
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Platform Compliance in the Middle East: How Opaque Content Moderation Enables Quiet Authoritarian Censorship
Across the MENA region, particularly in the Gulf, political speech increasingly disappears from major platforms [...]
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Arab Gulf States at odds: The UAE and Saudi Arabia in Yemen
Following developments in Yemen which saw the Southern Transitional Council (STC) seizing power across the [...]
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Women Human Rights Defenders Systematically Tortured in Saudi Prisons
Introduction Since 2019, Saudi Arabia has promoted a narrative of national reforms under Crown Prince [...]
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Munasaha Law: How the UAE has used Anti-Terrorism Laws to keep Outspoken Citizens in Indefinite Detention
With the recent death of political prisoner Ali Abdullah Fath Ali al-Khaja on the 19th [...]
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The Gulf’s Smart City Future is Built on Total Surveillance
Across the Gulf, governments are racing to reinvent themselves as hyper-efficient “smart cities”, supported by [...]
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Arab Gulf States at odds: The UAE and Saudi Arabia in Yemen
Following developments in Yemen which saw the Southern Transitional Council (STC) seizing power across the [...]
Jan
The Gulf’s Smart City Future is Built on Total Surveillance
Across the Gulf, governments are racing to reinvent themselves as hyper-efficient “smart cities”, supported by [...]
Jan
The BRIDGE Summit and the Paradox of Digital Freedom in the UAE
Between December 8 and 10, 2025, the United Arab Emirates hosted the BRIDGE Summit in [...]
Jan
Locked In: How Kuwait’s 2025 Exit-Permit Rule Traps Migrant Workers in Modern Kafala
In July 2025, Kuwait introduced a new regulation requiring all private-sector expatriate workers to obtain [...]
Jan
Al-Khaja, a political prisoner in UAE, dies in custody, officials refuse to launch an independent investigation
Ali Abdullah Fath Ali al-Khaja, 59, was found dead on November 19th in his cell [...]
Dec
How the Digital Blacklist Apparatus Operates Across Borders: the Case of Al-Shamsi
The recent disappearance of Emirati dissident Jasem Al-Shamsi, a former UAE government official turned dissident, [...]
Dec
The Role of the United Arab Emirates in the Genocide in Sudan
On April 15, 2023, a war broke out in Khartoum between two parties. On one [...]
Dec
Half Citizens: Women, Statelessness and the Struggle for Equality in the Gulf
Across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, nationality laws continue to entrench gender discrimination, perpetuating [...]
Nov
Migrant Women, Hidden Chains: Sexual Exploitation and Human Trafficking in the UAE
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a nation built largely on migrant labour, with approximately [...]
Nov
UAE Counterterrorism Law: A Tool To Suppress Dissent
It is now sadly well known that some Gulf countries use anti-terrorism laws to suppress [...]
Oct