I went to the UAE with high hopes, wanting to learn more about Islam and the Muslim Umma than the exposure I had in the South Asian communities in the UK.

At first I was entranced by the differences in architecture and the feeling that I was learning about a very different people from the Europeans/British I had grown up with...

But... scratch the surface and you find the White fascism undergirding the entire structure of the society, with an enslaving entirely exploitative framework based on a profoundly sexist and racist hierarchy.

For example, an engineer from the Philippines was getting paid as a secretary, and doing the work of an engineer, so that a 'local' ie Bedouin male took the credit...

Euro-American passport holders were slavishly respected, and those from say, India or Bangladesh , worked like dogs.

I tried to leave within two months and found myself trapped ... I

f you don't mind seeing extremes of exploitation then you can relax into a role. .. but when the nurse at one school, (third generation Palestinian,) wept and said, 'if I and her husband lose our jobs, we would have 30 days to find another one, or we would be deported', I understood how precarious life was made, to ensure submission to the Bedouin locals.