Emirati entrepreneur upset that TIME magazine criticised UAE

Emirati entrepreneur Omar Al Busaidy expressed disappointment with TIME magazine for publishing an article on April 1, 2026, titled “How the Iran War cracked Dubai’s liberal facade.” Al Busaidy tweeted: “Very disappointing from you guys, after all the support you got from the UAE , never expected something like this.”

Very disappointing from you guys, after all the support you got from the UAE , never expected something like this https://t.co/fwImAyvIaE

— Omar Al Busaidy عمر البوسعيدي 🇦🇪 (@omaralbusaidy) April 1, 2026

In February 2025, TIME partnered with the UAE to host the TIME100 AI Impact Awards at Dubai’s Museum of the Future. In December 2025, the TIME100 Impact Awards were held in Abu Dhabi for the first time.

The magazine is owned by zionist Marc Benioff of Salesforce. Jerusalem Post reported that Benioff had “donated to United Hatzalah in the wake of the [Oct 7] attack, and his company has continued investment in its Israeli center, which remains one of Salesforce’s “strategic hubs.”

TIME’s article describes the fallout of Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Trump’s Gulf monarch ally. It wrote:

The reality is that the Iran War has the UAE showing its true authoritarian colors as its government scrambles to control the conflict narrative, cracking down on anyone sharing photos of missile and drone attacks and their aftermath. For Dubai, where young, rich, and glamorous influencers endlessly parrot the city’s claim to be “the safest city in the world,” the shift has been especially profound—not least as tens of thousands of foreigners have fled.

Radha Stirling says the UAE has arrested hundreds of ordinary people, from maids to millionaires, under draconian cybercrime laws for sharing attack-related content, causing long term reputational damage.

Stirling is the CEO of Detained in Dubai, an organization that provides legal and diplomatic assistance to foreigners in trouble in the UAE.

“It’s everyone from a Filipina maid all the way to a multi-millionaire. It’s a really broad and draconian enforcement of the law.” – Radha Stirling, CEO of Detained in Dubai https://t.co/p4sBACe5F1

— Radha Stirling (@RadhaStirling) April 2, 2026

The comments under Al Busaidy’s post were dripping with condemnation for the UAE’s support to USA and Israel against Iran and for its complicity in crimes against “Yemeni, Libyan, Sudanese, and Gazan children.”

When will West Asians learn that they will always be sacrificed by white supremacy, no matter how much they try to suck up to them?

Featured image via the Canary

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Comments 1

Airlane1979 says:

2 months ago

Well done to a magazine rarely known for its leftist stance against capitalist repression. Social media exposes crimes of the rich and powerful in some ways better than even the most avid muckraking journalist could, and this has led to corporate media having little choice but to go with the trend or risk looking ridiculous and out of touch.