The Emirati Model

The Emirati Dream is a provocative exploration of how the UnitedArab Emirates became the most successful capitalist experiment in theArab world. Written by Obaid AlZaabi an Emirati insider with a frontrowseat to his country's transformation the book weaves historicalnarrative economic analysis and political insight to explain why theUAE succeeded where others faltered.Through rich storytelling and data-driven argument AlZaabi contraststhe UAE's pragmatic pro-business ethos with the socialist and populistmodels that have dominated the region-from Egypt's Nasserism toIraq's Baathism. He examines the pillars of the Emirati model: opentrade limited taxation foreign labor state-led investment and strategicneutrality in global affairs. He also reflects on the role of identityleadership and ambition in shaping the country's social contract.At once a celebration of the UAE's rise and a critique of its ideologicalalternatives The Emirati Dream offers a new way of thinking aboutdevelopment governance and ambition in the Arab world-and whatthe future might hold for a region at a crossroads.