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The article discusses political rights in the Persian Gulf Region (Gulf) and the claim that Gulf citizens are receiving additional chances to vote as of 2015, and it mentions democracy in Saudi Arabia, as well as voting rights in places such as United Arab Emirates and Oman. According to the article, women will be allowed to vote for the first time ever in Saudi Arabia's local elections in 2015. Price controls on consumer goods in Oman are assessed, along with politics in Qatar.

The article reports that authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were threatening to ban the BlackBerry smartphone made by Research in Motion (RIM), due to their frustration over not being able to hack into user accounts in order to spy on them. An effort by the UAE state-controlled telecommunications firm Etisalat to install spyware on customers BlackBerrys is also noted.

The article focuses on the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The global financial crisis and recession have had a severe affect on public finance and economic conditions in the UAE, particularly in Dubai, which has been unable to pay many of its debts. The secretive ruling families of the emirates have created governmental structures which are unable to respond to the crisis, due to difficulties in consistent decision-making.

The article focuses New York University's (NYU) Abu Dhabi campus, which opened in 2008 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Topics include the UAE government's plans to create an international education destination on Saadiyat Island, NYU founder John Sexton's efforts to create a global networked university, and crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan's seat on the NYU board of trustees.

The article reports on the decision by United Arab Emirates (UAE) crown prince Muhammad bin Zayed al-Nahyan to fire most of the foreign employees serving on Abu Dhabi, UAE's General Secretariat of the Executive Council (GSEC), discussing how the decision reflects a trend towards offering more jobs to Emiratis.

The article focuses on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government and its practice of deporting dissidents to places where they have no family or ties. Information is provided on Ahmed Abdelkhaleq, a political activist, and his forced relocation to Thailand after running a website that is critical of the UAE government and signing a petition calling for an elected legislature.

The article looks at the effects of the 2011 Arab Spring revolution in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), suggesting the UAE government is overreacting to potential revolutionary activities. Topics discussed include the canceling the residency permits of Syrians who had protested outside the Syrian embassy, the dismissal of teachers suspected to have Islamist leanings, and the government's public feud with the Muslim Brotherhood political party in Egypt.

The article focuses on how the revolutionary movement the Arab Spring has caused dissent among citizens in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan. Information is provided on the ruling system known as the Federal National Council (FNC), comprised of seven families, and how the government has been removing opposition by jailing protesters who call for voting rights and democracy.

The article examines geopolitical ramifications in the Persian Gulf states created by the possible default of Dubai World, the government-owned corporation of Dubai. The government of Saudi Arabia and of the other states of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may use the crisis in Dubai to limit the aggressive economic policy of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed Maktoum.

The article looks at political conditions in the United Arab Emirates. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the monarch of Abu Dhabi who is also president of the Gulf's seven-country United Arab Emirates (UAE), said that a bit of democracy was in order. So half the deputies in the UAE's Federal National Council will henceforth be elected after a fashion, whereas at present all are appointed by a committee of senior sheikhs. In future, some 2,000 leading UAE figures will be appointed from the country's business, political, religious, cultural and educational elites, and they will then elect 20 of the council's 40 members. Most of the rulers, particularly the Maktoums in Dubai and the Nahyans in Abu Dhabi, the UAE's two leading states, which have 16 of the council's 40 representatives between them, are popular.

Discusses mixed marriages in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Argument that the Emirates' government should enforce a rule to reduce or forbid mixed marriages; Thought of the UAE Marriage Fund that mixed marriages threaten social stability; Pattern of divorce in the UAE.