Haroon Moghul

In the UAE’s biggest city, you are hard-pressed to get much of any­thing in Ara­bic – un­less it is re­li­gion.

Is­lam­o­pho­bia pro­motes a “racialised view of Is­lam” – the ac­tions of the few rep­re­sent the “in­ten­tions” of the whole.

The Arab world does not have a uni­fied in­sti­tu­tion that could pro­vide much-need­ed po­lit­i­cal sta­bil­i­ty for the re­gion.