arabian issues

It wouldn't be a surprise if there were Pakistani troops there. I know they have served in the Air Force before.

UAE has reintroduced conscription to get round this and is currently sending the children of the relatively well-heeled into Yemen. It will be interesting to see how that works out. They are apparently badly trained and don't know what they are doing. I suspect it's partly an effort to get them to stay in school.

Synergy University Dubai Campus is a branch campus of Synergy University (Russian: Университет Синергия) or Moscow University for Industry and Finance “Synergy” (Russian: Московский финансово-промышленный университет «Синергия») based in Dubai.

Synergy University is an institution for higher education aimed at combining traditional academic teaching with fundamental knowledge & practical orientation, also Synergy University is one of the largest universities in Eastern Europe with 35000+ students, 40 regional units & wide international representation in different countries of the world, including United Arab Emirates and Russian Federation.[2]

It runs a in-house TV channel “Synergy TV” in Dubai while maintaining an internal publishing house “Synergy Press”.

that links to....

Synergy Television (Synergy TV) is the first music oriented channel, serving Trinidad and Tobago.

I might give them a ring tomorrow to see if I can set up a visit. I will report back if they say yes.

Dubai is producing music television for Trinidad and Tobago?

yes i think sv might be behind it somehow

http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2016/06/the-return-of-bernard-lewis/

BL: It is normal for human beings to judge others by ourselves. We are now in the 21st century of the Christian era. They are in the early fifteenth century of the Muslim era. It is a different religion based on entirely different historical experience, different message, different teaching, and it is therefore a grave error to do what people normally do, and that is judge others by ourselves. It does not work and it is dangerously misleading. If one looks at Islam from within and for that it is necessary to learn at least one Muslim language, something which many Middle East experts, in fact most Middle East experts in the West, for one reason or another are reluctant to do, if one learns he languages and reads what they say among themselves, and understands it in the context of their own history, their own culture, their own background, then I think I is not too difficult to understand what is happening.