...• The New York Times reports on the worrying case of Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, a Dubai princess who failed in an attempt to escape a stifled life in the palace and has not been seen since:
“Like the young women who have fled Saudi Arabia’s restrictive regime, Sheikha Latifa has made sure no one can forget how few freedoms are allotted to women in the Middle East’s most conservative societies — or how costly crossing Dubai’s ruler can be.
"For all its megamalls, haute cuisine and dizzying skyscrapers, Dubai can flip at speed from international playground to repressive police state. It has drawn headlines in the West for detaining foreigners for holding hands in public and drinking alcohol without a license.”
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