Twitter, 69, 161, 197–198, 200, 217, 225, 234–235
UAE Armed Forces, 35, 83, 86, 174, 184
UAE Presidential Palace, 128
UAE Red Crescent Society, 82, 84–85
Al-Udeid, airbase, 163–165
Umm al-Qawain, 22, 245, 247
Umm Shaif, 41
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 3
United Kingdom, see Britain
United Nations, 28, 81–82, 140, 244
United Nations Children’s Fund, 91
United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation, 96
United Nations Relief and Works Agency, 82
United Nations Security Council, 88, 90, 166
United Nations Working Group of Arbitrary Detention, 224
United States, of America, 14, 28, 32, 41, 43, 63, 73–76, 79, 81–82, 85, 87, 89–90, 92–94, 101–103, 105, 108–109, 113, 126, 149, 150, 161–169, 171–174, 176–178, 180, 184, 188, 194, 228, 232, 237, 244, 251
University College London, 104
University of Arkansas, 102
University of Connecticut, 102, 255
University of Southern California, 103
University of Toronto, 149, 177
University of Wales in Lampeter, 100
Uqair agreement, 242
US Central Command (CENT-COM), 164, 166, 172
US Congress, 94, 169, 173
US Fifth Fleet, 164
US Naval Support Activity Base, 164
US Navy, 164, 173, 232
USS John Kennedy, 164
Value added tax, 57
Vanity Fair, 149–150
Vietnam, 65, 108
Virginia Commonwealth University, 104
Al-Wahhab, Muhammab bin Abd, 18, 26
Al-Wahhabi, Abdul-Aziz, 269
Wahhabism, 18–21, 26, 28, 73–74, 180, 242
War on Terror, 1, 194–195
Washington DC, 94
Wa’ad, 44, 46
Web 2.0, 198–200
Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, 208
Weill Cornell Medical College, 104
Westinghouse, 263
Whisky, 158
Wilayet-e-faqih or rule by clerics, 233
WinWinD, 77
Women, 27, 34, 36, 38, 59–61, 87, 98, 129, 160–162, 188, 212, 215, 233–234, 258
World Athletics Championships, 93
World Bank, 76, 167
World Cup, 63, 93, 125, 262
World Food Programme, 83
World Trade Organisation, 176
Xingjiang province, of China, 109
Xingjiang University, 109
Xinhua News Agency, 109
Yacheng offshore gasfield, 106
Al-Yamanah arms deal, 169
Yemen, 3, 192, 199, 207, 261
Yemen, People’s Democratic Republic of, 3
Yom Kippur War, 40
YouTube, 198, 208, 222, 233
Al-Zaabi, tribe, 271
Al-Zaman, newspaper, 211
Zanzibar, 22
Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation, 84
Zayed Centre for Co-ordination and Follow-Up, 102, 176, 265
Zayed City, in Afghanistan, 84
Zayed Future Energy Prize, 77
Zayed University of Afghanistan, 84
Zeitoun, Muannad, 261
Zhejian province, of China, 108
Zinat Al-Bihar, 182
Zionism, 175–177
Zoroastrianism, 75
Zubarah, 19–20