ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ, May peace be with you. Greetings from the United Arab Emirates, in Abu Dhabi, ain’t no elections. Ain’t no elections in any of the UAE, you get the ruling families. Let’s hope they all keep getting on and supporting each other, history says that families, not least in the Middle East, can have problems. But it is a global communality, family dramas. The parallels on this trip, across the course of the history