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Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

محمد بن زايد آل نهيان
Head of state In government Verified

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.

Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of state

Individual position

Scored from Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan's own documents rather than inherited from a party — capturing where this figure diverges from the party line. Provisional, document-grounded estimate; see methodology.

Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan's spider profile
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Axis scores

On the record

Quotes attributed to Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • Israel's treacherous and reprehensible attack against the State of Qatar constituted a flagrant violation of its territorial integrity and of the security of the Arabian Gulf region.
    يشكّل اعتداء إسرائيل الغادر والمشين على دولة قطر انتهاكاً صارخاً لسلامة أراضيها ولأمن منطقة الخليج العربي.
    2025 UAE institutional statement at the 80th UNGA (delivered by Lana Nusseibeh) — the Abraham Accords signatory explicitly condemning Israel's 9 Sep 2025 strike on Doha. gadebate.un.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

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)

APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mbz-ae
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mbz-ae.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-mbz-ae,
  title     = {{Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mbz-ae},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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.