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Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
محمد بن زايد آل نهيان
Sheikh Mohammed in 2024
3rd President of the United Arab Emirates
Incumbent
Assumed office
14 May 2022
Prime MinisterMohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Vice President
Preceded byKhalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Ruler of Abu Dhabi
Reign13 May 2022 – present
PredecessorKhalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Heir apparentKhaled bin Mohamed Al Nahyan
Born (1961-03-11) 11 March 1961 (age 63)
Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, Trucial States
Spouse
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(m. 1981)​
Issue
Detail
  • Sheikha Mariam
  • Sheikh Khaled
  • Sheikha Shamsa
  • Sheikh Theyab
  • Sheikh Hamdan
  • Sheikha Fatima
  • Sheikha Shamma
  • Sheikh Zayed
  • Sheikha Hassa
  • Sheikh Hamad
  • Amina (adopted)
  • Salha (adopted)
Names
Mohamed bin Zayed bin Sultan bin Zayed bin Khalifa bin Shakhbout bin Theyab bin Issa bin Nahyan bin Falah bin Yas[1]
Arabic: محمد بن زايد بن سلطان بن زايد بن خليفة بن شخبوط بن ذياب بن عيسى بن نهيان بن فلاح بن ياس
HouseAl Nahyan
FatherZayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
MotherFatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi
Education
ReligionSunni Islam
Military career
BranchUnited Arab Emirates Air Force
Years of service1979–present
RankGeneral
Commands

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan[a] (born 11 March 1961), often referred to as MBZ or MbZ, is an Emirati royal and authoritarian ruler who currently serves as the third president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi.[2][3][4]

MBZ completed his education in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain and graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in April 1979.[5] He later joined the UAE Military and held various posts before becoming a pilot in the UAE Air Force; he was promoted to general in 2005.[5]

Sheikh Mohamed is the third son of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who was the first president of the UAE and the 16th ruler of Abu Dhabi.[6][7] MBZ became the crown prince of Abu Dhabi in November 2004, following the death of his father, when his brother, Sheikh Khalifa became the second president of the UAE and the ruler of Abu Dhabi.[8] In 2014, Sheikh Khalifa suffered a stroke and MBZ became the de facto president of the UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi.[7] MBZ officially became president of the UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi, after being chosen by the UAE Supreme Council, following the death of his brother on 13 May 2022.[6] On 29 March 2023, MBZ appointed his son Sheikh Khalid as crown prince of Abu Dhabi and his future successor.[9]

Academics have characterized the UAE under MBZ as an authoritarian capitalist country.[10][11] According to, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the UAE practices arbitrary detention, torture, tight restrictions on free speech, and forced disappearances of citizens and residents.[12][13] Mohamed became the de facto president, he introduced policies which aimed at economic liberalization. This included the introduction of VAT in 2018,[14] corporate taxes[15] and bankruptcy laws;[16] the elimination of gas subsidies,[17] as well as the removal of curbs of foreign ownership of businesses[18] and the decriminalization of bounced cheques.[19] MBZ also introduced liberal social policies under his watch, including the de jure removal of corporal punishment and Sharia law outside of blood money claims and personal status matters of Muslims;[20] the decriminalization of co-habitation, extra-marital relationships and alcohol consumption by Muslims;[21] a legal process of children born outside of wedlock;[22] and civil courts for personal status matters of non-Muslims residents.[23]

MBZ is known to be a fierce opponent of the Muslim Brotherhood,[24][25] Iran and its proxies in the Middle East.[26] Since becoming de facto president, the UAE participated in the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the Syrian civil war and was officially part of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen until the MBZ disagreed with the Saudi Arabia's approach in the war for its support of Al-Islah, a party which is known to have close connections with the Muslim Brotherhood but has maintained his support of the Southern Transitional Council.[27] MBZ fell out with the Obama administration on the Iran nuclear deal and supported the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.[28][29] The UAE was a leading party in the Qatar diplomatic crisis, in which the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and other Arab countries like Egypt and Jordan severed diplomatic relations with Qatar based on claims that Qatar supports the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoot organizations.[30] MBZ maintained a close relationship with former US President Donald Trump, with reports suggesting that MBZ was pushing Trump to take a tougher stance on Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood.[30] In September 2020, the UAE, alongside Bahrain, and later Morocco and Sudan, signed the Abraham Accords, an agreement to normalize diplomatic relationship with the State of Israel, a deal which was brokered by Trump.[31] The UAE has more recently been involved in an economic rivalry with Saudi Arabia,[32] and opposed Saudi efforts for OPEC+ production cuts.[33][34]

In 2019, The New York Times named him as the most powerful Arab ruler,[35] and was named as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2019 by Time magazine.[36][37] In 2023, the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre ranked MBZ as the eighth-most influential Muslim.[38]

Family and early life

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Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed was born at Oasis Hospital in Al Ain on 11 March 1961,[39][40] in what was then known as the Trucial States.[41][42][43]

He is the third son of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who became the founder and first president of the United Arab Emirates and the 16th ruler of Abu Dhabi, and his third wife, Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi.[44][45]

Mohamed has 18 brothers: Hamdan, Hazza, Issa, Nahyan, Saif, Tahnoun, Hamed, Mansour, Falah, Theyab, Abdullah, Omar, Khalid, the late Khalifa, the late Sultan, the late Saeed, the late Nasser, and the late Ahmed. In addition to these, he has eleven sisters.[46]

He has five younger full brothers: Hamdan, Hazza, Tahnoun, Mansour, and Abdullah. They are referred to as Bani Fatima - or the sons of Fatima.[47][48]

Education

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Sheikh Mohamed attended schools in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi and a summer at Gordonstoun until the age of 18. In his youth, his father put Izzedine Ibrahim, a respected Egyptian Islamic scholar with connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, charge of his education.[49][50]

Mohammed later joined the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and graduated in April 1979.[5] During his time at Sandhurst, he completed a fundamental armor course, a fundamental flying course, a parachutist course, and training on tactical planes and helicopters, including the Gazelle squadron.[46] During his time in Sandhurst, he met and became good friends with Abdullah of Pahang, who would later become the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia. They were both officer cadets at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[51]

In the 1980s as a young military officer, he enjoyed vacationing in Tanzania, where he met the Masai people and saw their customs and the extent of poverty in the country. Upon his return he went to see his father. His father asked him what he had done to help the people he had encountered. Mohamed shrugged and said he had not helped them because the people he met were not Muslims. Mohamed said that his father "clutched my arm, and looked into my eyes very harshly. He said, 'We are all God's creatures.'"[49]

He has held a number of roles in the UAE military, from that of an officer in the Amiri Guard (now called Presidential Guard) to a pilot in the UAE Air Force.[5]

Political career

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Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi

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Mohamed and U.S. President George W. Bush at Camp David

In November 2003, Sheikh Zayed appointed his son Mohamed as deputy crown prince of Abu Dhabi.[52][53] Upon the death of his father, Sheikh Mohamed became crown prince of Abu Dhabi in November 2004 and was appointed deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces in January 2005.[8] Later that month, he was promoted to the rank of general. Since December 2004 he has also been the chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, which is responsible for the development and planning of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and is a member of the Supreme Petroleum Council.[54] He also served as a special adviser to his older half-brother, Khalifa bin Zayed, president of the UAE at the time.[citation needed]

As a result of Sheikh Khalifa's ill health,[55] Mohamed became the de facto ruler of Abu Dhabi in January 2014 and was responsible for welcoming foreign dignitaries in the capital district of the United Arab Emirates in the city of Abu Dhabi.[56][57][58] On 13 May 2022, he became the ruler of Abu Dhabi, following the death of his brother Khalifa.[59] On 14 May 2022, he was elected as president of the United Arab Emirates.[60]

Foreign policy

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Sheikh Mohamed representing the United Arab Emirates in the NSS 2012
Israeli President Isaac Herzog meets Mohamed during his official visit to the United Arab Emirates, 30 January 2022
Al Nahyan meets with President of the European Council Charles Michel on 8 September 2022
Al Nahyan meets with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Abu Dhabi, 15 April 2023

In 2018, Mohamed travelled to Ethiopia to meet Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ahead of the first installment of a $3 billion donation from the UAE to Ethiopia, intended to tide over its foreign exchange shortage. Under Mohamed's encouragement and initiative, the UAE raised funds to provide aid to Somalia during periods of drought.[61][62][63]

Mohamed is a supporter of Yemen's internationally recognized government after the Yemen civil war and supported the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen to drive out Irani-backed Houthi militants after the Houthi takeover in Yemen.[64] During Mohamed's visit to France in 2018, a group of rights activists filed a lawsuit against the crown prince accusing him of being a "war criminal" who was "complicit in the torture and inhumane treatment in Yemen". The complaint filed on behalf of the French rights group AIDL said: "It is in this capacity that he has ordered bombings on Yemeni territory."[65]

In March 2023, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad conducted a state visit to the UAE where he was received with full honours in Abu Dhabi by Sheikh Mohamed.[66]

United States

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Mohamed regards the United States as his chief ally and has a strong relationship with United States diplomats including US former Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis and US former national security advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke. As unpaid advisers, Mohamed consults them and follows their advice on combating terrorism and enhancing the UAE's military strength and intelligence. Mohamed had an initially good relationship with the Obama administration but the relationship deteriorated when Barack Obama did not consult with or even inform the UAE about the Iran nuclear deal. A further breakdown in relations was caused over their different positions on the Syrian civil war. According to an Emirati senior adviser, "His Highness felt that the UAE had made sacrifices and then been excluded." However, Mohamed continued talking to Obama regularly and offered him advice. Mohamed warned Obama that his proposed remedy in Syria — the Free Syrian Army rebels who were allied to Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood — would be worse than the cancer of Bashar al-Assad. He also urged Obama to talk to the Russians about working together on Syria, and supported the Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war. The relationship deteriorated further when Obama made dismissive comments in a 2016 interview in The Atlantic, describing the gulf's rulers as "free riders" who "do not have the ability to put out the flames on their own". After the election of Donald Trump, Mohamed flew to New York to meet the president-elect's team and canceled a parting lunch with Obama.[49][67]

Mohamed with U.S. President Joe Biden at the GCC+3 summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 16 July 2022
Mohamed with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, 8 January 2024

Mohamed shared similar ideas with President Trump regarding Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, as Trump has sought to move strongly against both.[26] When Mohamed was a child, his father Sheikh Zayed unknowingly assigned a respected Muslim Brotherhood member, Ezzedine Ibrahim, as Mohamed's tutor. His tutor attempted an indoctrination that backfired. "I am an Arab, I am a Muslim and I pray. And in the 1970s and early 1980s I was one of them," Mohamed told visiting American diplomats in 2007 to explain his distrust of the Muslim Brotherhood, as they reported in a classified cable released by WikiLeaks. He stated, "I strongly believe these guys have an agenda."[68] Trump also shared Mohamed's views on Qatar, Libya and Saudi Arabia, even over the advice of cabinet officials and senior national security staff.[69] In August 2020, Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sheikh Mohamed jointly announced the establishment of formal Israeli–Emirati relations.[70]

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported that Al Nahyan refused to take phone calls with US President Joe Biden when Biden was asking for greater oil production from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates due to criticism of Biden's policy in the Gulf.[71]

In September 2024, Mohamed bin Zayed visited the United States, marking the first ever visit of an Emirati President to the White House. MbZ met President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris separately, discussing the future bilateral economic and technological relations.[72] Besides, Biden also designated the UAE as a “Major Defense Partner”, a decision that faced opposition due to the Emirates’ “secret” support to the RSF in Sudan conflict.[73] Ahead of MbZ’s visit to Washington, the US lawmakers also sent a letter to Biden, asking him to discuss Sudan’s crisis with MbZ. The lawmakers stated that the UAE’s backing of RSF could hinder Biden’s efforts to end the conflict.[74]

Egypt

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On 22 March 2022, Sheikh Mohamed met with President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Egypt. They discussed trilateral relations, Russo-Ukrainian War and the Iran nuclear deal.[75][76]

Russia

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Mohamed maintains a strong relationship with Russia and Vladimir Putin, and has brokered talks between Russia and the Trump administration. In 2016, Mohamed was found involved in the Russian meddling of the US presidential elections, where his adviser George Nader arranged a meeting for him and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Seychelles with US and Russian delegates, including Erik Prince and Kirill Dmitriev.[77] Mohamed was named in the final report of special counsel Robert Mueller on the alleged collusion between Trump campaign and Russia, which the investigation later concluded that there was no collusion between the meeting that occurred with Mohamed.[78] Mohamed's strong relationship with both Russia and the United States, as well as the influence he wields across both countries, has led The New York Times to label him as the Arab World's "most powerful ruler".[26]

Putin calls Mohamed an "old friend" and "a big friend of our country, a big friend of Russia". The two leaders talk with each other on the phone regularly.[79] In an official state visit to the Emirates, Putin gifted Mohamed a Russian gyrfalcon. The UAE also trained the first two Emirati astronauts Hazza Al Mansouri and Sultan Al Neyadi, and successfully launched the first Emirati and Arab astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri to the International Space Station with Russian help.

Russian president Vladimir Putin meeting with Sheikh Mohamed in Saint Petersburg on 11 October 2022

On 11 October 2022, Sheikh Mohamed met with Putin in Saint Petersburg, days after OPEC+ cut oil production.[80]

In June 2023, Sheikh Mohamed met Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), and said the Emirates wished to strengthen ties with Russia. Mohamed became the most prominent attendee, as the UAE was a special guest country at the event. Several major US and European politicians and investors used to attend the forum before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but the Western nations remained absent from the event in 2023.[81] MbZ's diplomatic adviser, Anwar Gargash said it was a "calculated risk" that the UAE was willing to take for de-escalation in an increasingly polarized world.[82] The UAE was, however, criticized for supporting Russia's war in Ukraine,[83] where the Emirates also became a mediator in sending Chinese weapons to Russia.[84]

Turkey

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Mohamed with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G7 Summit in Italy, 14 June 2024

In August 2021, Mohamed held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss reinforcing relations between their two countries.[85] This came after years of each state supporting opposing sides in regional conflicts, such as that in Libya.[85] Relations started to improve between the two regional rivals – the UAE and Turkey – following the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban and the withdrawal of the US troops.[86]

South Africa

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The Emirates’ policy in Africa majorly involved three categories– Commercial, strategic and financial role. Under Mohamed’s leadership, the Emirates’ total investments into Africa increased to $110bn, as China was cutting down loans to the continent. In 2022 and 2023, the Emirates also pledged investments worth $97bn across ports, renewable energy, mining, agriculture, real estate, communications and manufacturing in Africa. In a decade, the UAE maintained a position amongst the top 4 investors of Africa. The Emirati influence in Africa has also been on the rise. Even though Dubai denied to extradite Gupta brothers, who were accused of looting South Africa by the authorities, Mohamed was welcomed in the state. Mohamed also donated around $1mn to upgrade a runway of an airport in the Eastern Cape province. In April 2023, Mohamed, his family and friends, traveled to Eastern Cape to stay at his private resort to celebrate Eid. The UAE’s presence was also seen in wars, including in Libya, Ethiopia and Sudan. In Ethiopia, the Emirates provided military support to the government in the war against the forces from Tigray. In 2019 and 2020, the UAE’s actions in the Libya war were controversial, where it supported the Libyan warload, Khalifa Haftar. In Sudan, the UAE was accused of fueling the war by supporting Hemedti’s Rapid Support Forces, which the Emirates has repeatedly denied.[87][88][89]

Nuclear energy

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Main article: Barakah nuclear power plant
See also: U.S.–UAE 123 Agreement for Peaceful Civilian Nuclear Energy Cooperation

Under Mohamed's leadership, the UAE built the first-ever nuclear power reactor in the region, the Barakah nuclear power plant.[90] The UAE and US signed a bilateral agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation that enhances international standards of nuclear non-proliferation.[91] Mohamed was at the Nuclear Security Summit of 2012[92] and 2014, which were hosted by South Korea and the Netherlands respectively.[93]

Religion in the UAE

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See also: Freedom of religion in the United Arab Emirates
The BAPS present Hindu literature to Sheikh Mohamed and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Abu Dhabi. At the rightmost corner is B. R. Shetty.

Islam is the official religion of the UAE and there are laws against blasphemy, proselytizing by non-Muslims, and conversions away from Islam. The constitution of the UAE guarantees freedom of worship, unless it contradicts public policy or morals.[94] The UAE government tightly controls and monitors Muslim practices.[25] A government permit is required to hold a Quran lecture or distribute content related to Islam in an effort to combat decentralized preaching from Islamist groups. All imams must receive their salaries from the UAE government.[25]

Mohamed visited Pope Francis in 2016, and in February 2019, he welcomed Francis to the UAE, marking the first papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula. Pope Francis's arrival coincided with a conference entitled "Global Conference of Human Fraternity". The conference featured talks and workshops about how to foster religious tolerance. As part of this visit, Pope Francis held the first Papal Mass to be celebrated in the Arabian Peninsula at Zayed Sports City in which 180,000 worshippers from 100 countries, including 4,000 Muslims, were present.[95][96][97]

Over the course of the last years, the UAE has seen the rise of the Indian population and Hindu advocacy. The government has allowed the building several privately-funded Hindu temples and the screening of the film The Kashmir Files.[98][99][100]

Domestic policy

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Authoritarianism

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Political scientists have characterized Mohamed bin Zayed as the strongman leader of an authoritarian regime,[10][101][102][103] as there are no free and fair elections,[104] political and civil rights are limited,[105] free speech is restricted,[105][106] and there are no free and independent media.[104] According to the human rights organizations Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the UAE practices torture, arbitrary detention, and forced disappearance of citizens and residents.[107][105]

Political scientist Christopher Davidson has characterized Mohamed's tenure as de facto UAE leader as entailing "a marked and rapid intensification of autocratic-authoritarianism."[101] Democracy indicators show "recent and substantial efforts to tighten up almost all remaining political and civic freedoms."[101] According to Andreas Krieg, Mohamed's political ideology holds that strongman authoritarianism is the optimal governance system for the UAE.[10] Krieg writes:[10]

"MbZ envisaged the creation of a new Middle Eastern state... Statecraft would be the prerogative of the autocratic, centralized ruler whose transactional relationship with his subordinates was supposed to be governed by both means of accommodation and repression. The ideal strongman, from MbZ's point of view, was in control of the security sector, both military and law enforcement, and governed over a society emancipated from religious conservatism and empowered by capitalist market structures... Abu Dhabi's paranoia over political dissidence was further fuelled by the developments of the Arab Spring to which MbZ internally reacted by further curtailing the freedom of speech, thought and assembly in the country... MbZ's fierce state has moved against any civil society activism in the country outside state control."[10]

Economic policy

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Scholars have characterized the UAE under Mohamed bin Zayed's regime as a rentier state.[108]

He previously served as the head of Abu Dhabi Council for Economic Development (ADCED), Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), Mubadala Development Company, Tawazun Economic Council, and Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge.[109][110][111][112]

According to The Intercept and referencing the hacked emails of Yousef Al Otiaba, an American citizen Khaled Hassen received a $10 million in 2013 for an alleged torture settlement after a lawsuit presented in the federal court in Los Angeles against three senior Abu Dhabi royals, including Mohamed bin Zayed.[113]

In June 2018, Mohamed approved a three-year AED 50 billion stimulus package. He also commissioned a review of building regulations in an effort to galvanize urban development.[114]

Mohamed is chairman of the Supreme Council for Financial and Economic Affairs and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. The council is the primary governing body of Abu Dhabi's financial, investment, economic, petroleum and natural resources affairs.[115]

Military

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Main article: United Arab Emirates Armed Forces
Mohamed as Chief of Staff in his air force military uniform greeting then U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen in Abu Dhabi, 1997

Mohamed served as an officer in the Amiri Guard (now known as Presidential Guard), as a pilot in the UAE's Air Force, as commander of the UAE Air Force and Air Defense, and as deputy chief of staff of the Armed Forces. In 2005, he was appointed deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces and was accordingly promoted to lieutenant general.[116][117]

In the early 1990s, Mohamed told Richard Clarke, then an assistant secretary of state, that he wanted to buy the F-16 fighter jet. Clarke replied that he must mean the F-16A, the model the Pentagon sold to American allies. Mohamed said that instead he wanted a newer model he had read about in Aviation Week, with an advanced radar-and-weapons system. Clarke told him that that model did not exist yet; the military had not done the necessary research and development. Mohamed said the UAE would pay for the research and development. The subsequent negotiations went on for years, and according to Clarke "he ended up with a better F-16 than the US Air Force had".[49]

Mohamed made jujitsu compulsory in schools. In 2014, he established the military draft, conscripting young Emiratis to attend a year of boot camp, initially running a pilot project within his own family and making his own daughters run as the sample size by making them attend boot camp. He invited Maj. Gen. Mike Hindmarsh, the retired former head of Australia's Special Operations Command, to help reorganize the Emirati military. According to the New York Times, as a result of Mohamed's vision, the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces became the best equipped and trained military in the region apart from Israel.[49] Under Mohamed's leadership, the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces also became commonly nicknamed as "Little Sparta" by United States Armed Forces General and former US defense secretary James Mattis as a result of their active and effective military role despite their small active personnel.[118]

According to a 2020 study, Mohamed's reforms successfully increased the effectiveness of the UAE military.[119]

Controversies

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On 17 July 2020, a French investigating magistrate was appointed to carry out the probe targeting Mohamed bin Zayed for "complicity in the of torture" citing the UAE's involvement in the Yemen civil war.[120] One of the two complaints was filed with the constitution of civil party by six Yemenis, who claimed to have been tortured, electrocuted and burned by cigarettes in Yemeni detention centers controlled by the UAE armed forces.[121] A report by United Nations experts highlighted that the attacks of the Saudi-led coalition, of which the UAE is a member, may have constituted war crimes, and that the Emirati forces controlled two centres where torture has been carried out.[122]

Following the 2018 French probe into the torture claims, France's top criminal court, the Court of Cassation, rejected in November 2022 attempts to reopen the investigation and rule that there were "no grounds to accept an appeal."[123] In October 2021, Mohamed's name was featured alongside four other Emirati officials in an indictment of Thomas J. Barrack, former adviser of Donald Trump. In July 2021, Barrack was arrested by the American authorities for allegedly failing to register as a foreign lobbyist for the UAE, obstructing justice and lying to investigators.[124] Later, his seven-count indictment identified names of three Emirati royals, who were hosts at Barrack's reception in December 2016. It included Mohamed bin Zayed, Tahnoun bin Zayed and director of the Emirati intelligence service, Ali Mohammed Hammad Al Shamsi. Two other UAE officials named in the indictment were Abdullah Khalifa Al Ghafli and Yousef Al Otaiba. Together, the officials were accused of giving Barrack the task to push the Emirati interests with the US.[125] In 2022, Barrack was found not guilty on all charges.[126]

On 17 July 2022, Mohamed visited France to meet President Emmanuel Macron. It was his first foreign travel since becoming the UAE president.[127] However, a group of human rights organizations, including International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) and the Ligue des droits de l'Homme, wrote an open letter to President Macron, highlighting the human rights situation in the UAE. Drawing attention to the repressive dictatorship practiced in the Emirates, they urged Macron to raise the issue of severe human rights violations in the UAE with Mohamed during the meeting. The letter also asked Macron to end the arms supply to the UAE, in wake of the Yemen war.[128]

Philanthropy

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Mohamed with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., May 2017

Mohamed has gifted AED 55 million to the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking,[129] committed to raise US$100 million for the Reaching the Last Mile Fund,[130] pledged US$50 million for children vaccine efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan,[131][132][133][134] and contributed US$30 million to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership.[135][136][137] The University of Texas chair for scientific and medical knowledge in cancer research is named after Mohamed as a result of a funding grant to MD Anderson Cancer Center.[138] He organizes the Zayed Charity Marathon in New York City since its inauguration in 2005. The race raises awareness about kidney disease, and the proceeds go to the US's National Kidney Foundation.[139][140]

Mohamed bin Zayed has been involved in setting up art museums, such as Louvre Abu Dhabi in 2017 and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi in 2012, as well as cultural heritage sites such as Qasr Al Hosn.[141][142][143][144]

Mohamed has been involved in efforts to protect wild falcons, bustards, and the Arabian oryx. He donated US$1 million to an initiative aimed at preventing the power line-related deaths of wild birds, as part of launching of the 20-million-dollar Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Raptor Conservation Foundation.[145] He heads the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund.[146][147][148]

A species of woodlizard — Enyalioides binzayedi — was named after Mohamed as the creator of the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund that provided financial support to the expeditions leading to the discovery of the species in the Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru.[149][150] In 2017, Acer binzayedii, a rare species of maple tree found in the mountainous cloud forest of Jalisco in Western Mexico, was named after him.[151]

Personal life

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Mohamed is married to Sheikha Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan.[152] They married in 1980.[153] They have nine children together, four sons and five daughters. They have two adopted daughters, and together they have 21 grandchildren.[5]

  • Sheikha Mariam bint Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. She is married to Sheikh Mohammed bin Tahnoun Al Nahyan. The couple has two sons:
    • Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan (born 14 April 2011)
    • Zayed bin Mohammed Al Nahyan (born 14 May 2014)
  • Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed Al Nahyan (born on 8 January 1982). He is married to Sheikha Fatima bint Suroor Al Nahyan since 2008 and they have three children:
    • Shamma bint Khaled Al Nahyan (born 10 October 2011)
    • Mohammed bin Khaled Al Nahyan (born 20 December 2013)
    • Salama bint Khaled Al Nahyan (born 20 December 2013)
  • Sheikha Shamsa bint Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (born on 18 June 1984). She is married to Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Nahyan. They have six children:
    • Hessa bint Mohammed Al Nahyan (born 22 May 2003). She is married to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Tahnoun Al Nahyan.[154]
    • Zayed bin Mohammed Al Nahyan (born 29 December 2005)
    • Salama bint Mohammed Al Nahyan (born 11 July 2007)
    • Fatima bint Mohammed Al Nahyan
    • Mohammed bin Mohammed Al Nahyan (born 24 July 2024)
    • Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan (born 24 July 2024)
  • Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. He is married to Sheikha Latifa bint Hamdan Al Nahyan. They have three children:
    • Fatima bint Theyab Al Nahyan (born 4 June 2014)
    • Salama bint Theyab Al Nahyan (born 7 February 2016)
    • Zayed bin Theyab Al Nahyan (born 7 May 2019)
  • Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. He married Sheikha Fakhra bint Khalifa Al Nahyan in 2021. They have one son:
    • Mohammed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan (born 15 August 2022)
    • Khalifa bin Hamdan Al Nahyan (born 29 February 2024)
  • Sheikha Fatima bint Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was born in 1989. She is married to Sheikh Nahyan bin Saif Al Nahyan. They have four children:
    • Mohammed bin Nahyan Al Nahyan (born 20 November 2012)
    • Saif bin Nahyan Al Nahyan (born 15 June 2014)
    • Zayed bin Nahyan Al Nahyan (born 3 December 2018)
    • Mariam bint Nahyan Al Nahyan (born 16 August 2023)
  • Sheikha Shamma bint Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was born in 1992. She is married to Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan. The couple has one son:
    • Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan (born 17 May 2023)
  • Sheikh Zayed bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was born on October 24, 1995. Graduated from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in December 2020.
  • Sheikha Hessa bint Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
  • Amina - adopted daughter
  • Salha - adopted daughter

A lifelong fan of falconry, Mohamed established the Mohamed bin Zayed Falconry and Desert Physiognomy School with the goal of promoting and sustaining the ancient tradition by teaching it to new generations of Emiratis. He himself learned the practice from his father.[155][156][157]

Succession

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Mohamed, in his capacity as ruler of Abu Dhabi, has issued an Emiri decree appointing his son Khaled bin Mohamed Al Nahyan as the crown prince.[158]

Honours

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Styles of
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Reference styleHis Highness
Spoken styleYour Highness
Alternative styleRa'is (President)

Place named after him

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Ancestry

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Notes

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  1. ^ Arabic: محمد بن زايد آل نهيان, romanized: Muḥammad bin Zāyid Āl Nahyān

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Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Born: 11 March 1961
Regnal titles
Preceded by Ruler of Abu Dhabi
13 May 2022 – present 		Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by President of the United Arab Emirates
14 May 2022 – present 		Incumbent
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