
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to my former colleagues in Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme, who supported this project at its inception and waited patiently for its completion. Particular thanks are due to Mais Peachey, Reni Zhelyazkova, Sanam Vakil and Lina Khatib, and, also at Chatham House, to Ahmed Soliman and Jo Maher. Thanks also to the governments of the UK and the Netherlands, who funded the wider Chatham House project of which this paper was a part, and from which it was funded. And finally, my thanks to the UAE, Western and other officials who spoke to me during research for this paper, along with countless others who contributed insight and wisdom.