Country · AE
United Arab Emirates
الإمارات العربية المتحدة איחוד האמירויות0 parties on file
This country appears on the regional map; its parties are not part of the current dataset.
Marquee bills
All bills →Current leadership
- Head of state In gov
Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed خالد بن محمد بن زايد
Independent
Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi since March 2023 — appointed by his father Mohamed bin Zayed when MBZ became UAE president after the death of Sheikh Khalifa. The signal that the second-generation Zayed line is now formalized in the line of succession. Chairs the Abu Dhabi Executive Office; has overseen the surveillance-state-by-investment posture that defines current AE policy.
- Head of state In gov
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan محمد بن زايد آل نهيان
Independent
President of the United Arab Emirates since May 2022 (de facto ruler since 2014 as Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi). Architect of Emirati foreign policy and the Abraham Accords.
- Minister In gov
Anwar Gargash أنور قرقاش
Independent
Diplomatic Adviser to the UAE President. Former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (2008–2021) — the public face of UAE foreign policy through the Yemen war, the Qatar blockade, and the Abraham Accords. Cambridge-trained; one of the few UAE officials regularly accessible to international media and a frequent essayist on regional realignment.
- Activist
Ahmed Mansoor أحمد منصور
Independent
Emirati blogger and rights activist; sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2018 for online speech criticizing the Emirati government. Repeated targeting by Pegasus spyware before his arrest was a central case in the global debate over commercial spyware.
- Activist
Iyad El-Baghdadi إياد البغدادي
Independent
Palestinian-Emirati rights activist and writer; expelled from the UAE in 2014 and now based in Norway under government protection following intelligence warnings about an assassination plot. Co-founder of the Kawaakibi Foundation focused on Arab freedoms.
Parties
No parties recorded yet.
Source documents · 5
All docs →- UAE statement to the 80th UN General Assembly, delivered by Minister of State Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, 27 Sep 2025 (English; UAE institutional position under MBZ) 751 words
- UAE — 79 UN GA Speech (Minister of State Shakhboot Al Nahyan, 30 Sep 2024, Sudan-SAF-attack-on-UAE-Ambassador + Iran-3-islands) 964 words
- UAE — 79th UNGA address — Gaza ceasefire, Iran islands, Palestinian recognition (30 September 2024) 607 words
- Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan — Opening statement at the COP28 World Climate Action Summit, Dubai, 1 December 2023 247 words
- UAE — 78th UNGA address — 'Zero Problems with Neighbours', pre-Oct-7 framing, COP28 launch (23 September 2023) 759 words
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). United Arab Emirates [Country profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/AE
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "United Arab Emirates." Country profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/AE.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-country-ae,
title = {{United Arab Emirates}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Country profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/AE},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.