Ed Husain is an advisor to governments, author of The House of Islam: A Global History (Bloomsbury, 2018), and a doctoral researcher at the University of Buckingham.
Five more of our regular writers pick several favorites each, featuring what Jews are for, magicians, assassins, call signs, chaos, separated siblings, and more.
The UAE is one of the youngest of the Arab states, and its distance from 1948, 1967 and the other Arab-Israeli wars of the past gives its leaders a freer mind to lead the way.