UAE’s Lurking Unemployment Issue Raises Questions
With increasing unemployment and the introduction of taxes, Gulf citizens are beginning to ask questions about their economic future.
Mira Al Hussein
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Mira Al Hussein is a sociologist of culture, politics, and higher education in the Arab states of the Gulf. She is a fellow with the Columbia University Global Centre’s program on Exiting Violence, researching issues on individual agency, collective capacity building, and migration.
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