Dubai: the sheikh and his daughters

Now the UN is getting involved: the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said it will soon question the United Arab Emirates about Princess Latifa, and a spokesman said the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention could launch an investigation once Princess Latifa's videos have been analysed.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the absolute ruler of Dubai, has 25 children by his six wives, so he obviously loves children, but, unaccountably, his daughters keep trying to escape. He recaptures them and locks them up, of course, but it’s starting to draw unwelcome attention, writes Gwynne Dyer.

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

February 18, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Dubai can be amusing, in a voyeuristic way, for a week or two. Tallest building in the world and the mall with the shark tank, but it’s the people, really. There are a quarter-million expats, mostly British or American, living much higher on the hog than they ever could at home—b...

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