Journalist Robert Worth on Profiling Mohammed bin Zayed

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with author and journalist Robert Worth, who conducted a rare interview with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed, for a profile featured in the New York Times Magazine. Worth, who previously worked as the New York Times’ Beirut bureau chief, explains the internal politics of and regional dynamics surrounding the United Arab Emirates, and explains why M.B.Z. is among the most powerful Arab leaders today. He also shares unpublished anecdotes from his reporting.

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0:37.4	Mohammed Bin Zayed, who we all affectionately call NBC, how would you describe his world
0:44.0	view, his mindset, his vision?
0:47.0	This is the heart of your piece, right?
0:48.4	Sure, yeah.
0:49.4	I think his vision of the Emirates and the Arab world's future is, well, first of all,
0:54.2	it's not democratic, we should say that.
0:56.1	Although it does have its own sort of how to put it, certain forms of accountability,
1:01.1	you know, in which people can bring concerns to the world of family.
1:05.2	And I don't think he would use this word, but I think it's at least in relative terms
1:08.5	in the Arab world.
1:09.5	It's a secular vision.
1:11.1	He does not want to see political Islam taking over that region.
1:15.1	And I think he's immensely, immensely concerned about that.
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