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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