The United Arab Emirates is one of the most breathtaking countries in the world

The eyes of the UAE government are keeping a close eye on its citizens and foreigners, a US academy says, and Dubai and Abu Dhabi are among the most breathtaking cities in the world.

Yasmin Bahrani, a professor of journalism at the American University in Dubai, recounted in an article in The Washington Post, her experience of living in the UAE and similar traces of all her movements and habitation.

Describing the UAE as a modern state that monitors its population, it quoted a headline from a Reuters report that said "the CIA is not spying on the United Arab Emirates."

As a woman who lived in the Gulf, she has nothing but laughter. She claims there is a lot of espionage in the UAE, especially by the Emiratis themselves.

"It may seem surprising to many from outside the region, but Dubai and Abu Dhabi are among the most watched cities in the world." In Abu Dhabi alone, there are about 20,000 security cameras deployed in the city to monitor 1.5 million people, while Dubai has about 35,000 cameras monitoring 2.8 million of its population.

By comparison, the number of CCTV cameras distributed in Washington, DC is only 4,000. Yet Yasmine claims that there are some positives in this surveillance system, the most obvious of which is the low level of crime. "Everyone understands that there are cameras everywhere."

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Just knowing or mistrusting that someone is watching you or listening is not good, she said, noting that only 15% of Dubai residents residing in the UAE are citizenship and the rest are foreigners who make no mistake in order not to lose their jobs, be deported or exposed. For prison.

The internet itself has not been spared, Yasmine said, adding that the UAE has formed a team of American mercenaries - mostly former NSA agents - to infiltrate accounts of dissidents and journalists and monitor their activities on the Web.

The UAE government is working with NSO, an Israeli technology company focused on electronic intelligence, who was caught installing a spy program on the phone of a regime dissident, the New York Times reported.

The writer cited examples of government attempts in the UAE to spy on some foreigners residing in the country, saying it had become common for people to whisper when talking about political issues or avoiding talking at all.

She pointed out that this feeling has become so common among expatriates that even one of her students - an Egyptian national - told her that her family collects mobile phones and put them in a room and close the door, and then members in another room to chat with the parties without fear of anyone listening to them.