with knowledge of Dubai’s royals.B
treated like a child.” She adds, “Anyone
who comes from the high-up royal level I
come from is restricted from doing any-
thing, culture-wise, that can annoy the
public.” After beginning a covert roman-
tic relationship with a British man, she
ran to England. “I left an email in my
sister’s inbox explaining everything: I
hated the country, the injustice, the lack
of freedom, and the Emirati men,” she
told me. Her family, astonished, did not
inform their community. “My family has
decided to hide the fact that I left them
due to our differences, and instead have
been creating stories of me—studying