Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla is a UAE national. He is a retired professor of Political Science and former Chairman of the Arab Council for Social Science. He served as director of the Gulf Research Unit, Sharjah, for ten years and a member of the Executive Council of the Gulf Forum. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Georgetown University. He was a Fulbright Scholar and a visiting professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University. His research interests include issues in the Gulf and the Arab World. He is the author of several books, including the Gulf Movement 2019. He has published more than 50 articles, the latest being The Rise of the UAE as a Middle East Power House 2021, Civic Culture, and The Peak of Globalization 2020.