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Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Arabic: محمد بن زايد آل نهيان, romanizedMuḥammad bin Zāyid Āl Nahyān; born 11 March 1961), popularly known by his initials as MBZ,[2][3] is the third president of the United Arab Emirates and the ruler of Abu Dhabi.[4] Sheikh Mohamed is the third son of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who was the first president of the UAE and the ruler of Abu Dhabi.[5]

Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Mohamed in 2021
3rd President of the United Arab Emirates
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 62)
Al Ain, Trucial States
Spouse
(m. 1981)
Issue
  • Sheikha Mariam
  • Sheikh Khaled
  • Sheikha Shamsa
  • Sheikh Theyab
  • Sheikh Hamdan
  • Sheikha Fatima
  • Sheikha Shamma
  • Sheikh Zayed
  • Sheikha Hassa
  • Amina (adopted)
  • Salha (adopted)
Names
Sheikh 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
ReligionSunni Islam
Education
Military career
AllegianceUnited Arab Emirates
Service/branchUnited Arab Emirates Air Force
Years of service1979–present
RankGeneral
Commands held
Website

In 2019, The New York Times named him as the most powerful Arab ruler and one of the most powerful men on Earth.[6] He was also named as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2019 by Time Magazine.[7][8]

Sheikh Mohamed is regarded by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre as the eighth-most influential Muslim in the world in 2023.[9]

Family and early life Edit

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed was born in Al Ain on 11 March 1961, in what was then the Trucial States.[10][11][12]

He is the third son of Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the first President of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi, and his third wife, Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi.[13][14]

Mohamed has 16 brothers: Hamdan, Hazza, Saeed, Isa, Nahyan, Saif, Tahnoun, Mansour, Falah, Diab, Omar, Khalid, the late Khalifa, the late Sultan, the late Nasser, and the late Ahmed. In addition to these, he has several sisters.[15]

He has five younger full brothers: Hamdan, Hazza, Tahnoun, Mansour, and Abdullah.[16] They are referred to as Bani Fatima - or sons of Fatima.[17][18]

Education Edit

His father Sheikh Zayed sent him to Morocco intending for it to be a disciplinary experience. He gave him a passport showing a different last name, so that he would not be treated like royalty. Mohamed spent several months working as a waiter in a local restaurant. He made his own meals and did his own laundry, and was often lonely. Mohamed described his life back then by saying "There'd be a bowl of tabbouleh in the fridge, and I'd keep eating from it day after day until a kind of fungus formed on the top".[19]

Sheikh Mohamed was further educated at schools in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi and a summer at Gordonstoun until the age of 18. In the Emirates, his father put a respected Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Islamic scholar named Izzedine Ibrahim in charge of his education.[19][20]

In 1979, he joined the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst graduating in April 1979.[21] 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.[15] During his time in Sandhurst, he met and became good friends with Abdullah of Pahang, who would later become King of Malaysia. They were both officer cadets at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[22]

In the 1980s as a young military officer on holiday in Tanzania, Mohamed 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 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.'"[19]

Mohamed then returned home to the UAE to join the Officers' Training Course in Sharjah. 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.[21]

Political career Edit

Emirate of Abu Dhabi Edit

 
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.[23][24] 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.[25] 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.[26] He also served as a special adviser to his older half-brother Khalifa bin Zayed, President of the UAE.[citation needed]

As a result of Sheikh Khalifa's ill health,[27] 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.[28][29][30] On 13 May 2022, he became the ruler of Abu Dhabi, following the death of his brother Khalifa.[31] On 14 May 2022, he was elected as the President of the United Arab Emirates.[32]

UAE foreign policy Edit

 
Sheikh Mohamed representing the United Arab Emirates in the NSS 2012

In 2018, Mohamed traveled 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.[33][34][35]

Mohamed is a supporter of Yemen's internationally recognized government after the Yemen civil war and supported the Saudi-led, western-backed intervention in Yemen to drive out Houthi militants after the Houthi takeover in Yemen.[36] During Mohamed's visit to France in November 2018, a group of rights activists filed a lawsuit against the crown prince accusing him of "war crimes and complicity in 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."[37]

United States Edit

 
Mohamed with U.S. President Joe Biden at the GCC+3 summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 16 July 2022

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. According to an Emirati senior adviser, "His Highness felt that the UAE had made sacrifices and then been excluded." Mohamed continued talking to Obama regularly and offered him advice. He warned him that the proposed remedy in Syria — Islamist rebels — could be worse than Bashar al-Assad's tyranny. He also urged Obama to talk to the Russians about working together on Syria. 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.[19][38]

Mohamed shared similar ideas with President Trump regarding Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, as Trump has sought to move strongly against both.[39] When Mohamed was a child, his father Sheikh Zayed unknowingly assigned a prominent 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 believe these guys have an agenda."[40] Trump also shared Mohamed's views on Qatar, Libya and Saudi Arabia, even over the advice of cabinet officials and senior national security staff.[41] In August 2020, Trump, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sheikh Mohamed jointly announced the establishment of formal Israel–United Arab Emirates relations.[42]

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.[43]

Egypt Edit

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.[44][45]

Russia Edit

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

Mohamed maintains a strong relationship with Russia and its president 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.[46] 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.[47] 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".[39]

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.[48] 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 first Arab Astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri to the International Space Station with Russian help.

On 11 October 2022, Sheikh Mohamed met with Putin in Saint Petersburg, days after OPEC+ cut oil production.[49]

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. MbZ 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.[50] 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.[51] The UAE was, however, criticized for supporting Russia's war in Ukraine,[52] where the Emirates also became a mediator in sending Chinese weapons to Russia.[53]

Turkey Edit

In August 2021, Mohamed held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss reinforcing relations between their two countries.[54] This came after years of each state supporting opposing sides in regional conflicts, such as that in Libya.[54] 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 U.S. troops.[55]

Nuclear energy Edit

Under Mohamed's leadership, the UAE built the first-ever nuclear power reactor in the region, the Barakah nuclear power plant.[56] The UAE and US signed a bilateral agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation that enhances international standards of nuclear non-proliferation.[57] Mohamed was at the Nuclear Security Summit of 2012[58] and 2014, which were hosted by South Korea and the Netherlands respectively.[59]

Religion in the UAE Edit

 
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.[60] The UAE government tightly controls and monitors Muslim practices.[61] 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.[61]

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.[62][63][64]

Over the course of the last years, the Emirati government has been promoting Hinduism and has built several Hindu temples.[65] UAE has seen the rise of Hindutva advocacy [66] and the authorities allowed the screening of movies like "The Kashmir files", a film banned in Singapore.[67]

Domestic policy Edit

Authoritarianism Edit

Political scientists have characterized Mohamed bin Zayed as the strongman leader of an authoritarian regime,[68][69][70][71] as there are no free and fair elections,[72] political and civil rights are limited,[73] free speech is restricted,[73][74] and there are no free and independent media.[72] 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.[75][73]

Political scientist Christopher Davidson has characterized Mohamed's tenure as de facto UAE leader as entailing "a marked and rapid intensification of autocratic-authoritarianism."[69] Democracy indicators show "recent and substantial efforts to tighten up almost all remaining political and civic freedoms."[69] According to Andreas Krieg, Mohamed's political ideology holds that strongman authoritarianism is the optimal governance system for the UAE.[68] Krieg writes:[68]

"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."[68]

Economic policy Edit

Scholars have characterized the UAE under Mohamed bin Zayed's regime as a rentier state.[76]

He heads the Abu Dhabi Council for Economic Development (ADCED),[77][78][79] and is the Deputy Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA).[80] He is the chairman of the Mubadala Development Company[25] (an Emirati state-owned holding company that can be characterized as a sovereign wealth fund)[77][81] and the Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (the Sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi).[82][21] He is the head of the Tawazun Economic Council, formerly known as UAE offsets programme bureau established in 1992[83] and is the head of the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge which was established in 2005.[84][85]

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.[86]

In June 2018, Mohamed approved a three-year 50 billion AED stimulus package. He also commissioned a review of building regulations in an effort to galvanize urban development.[87]

Mohamed is Chairman of the Supreme Petroleum Council of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. The council is the primary governing body of Abu Dhabi's hydrocarbon resources.[88][89][90]

Military Edit

 
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 Lt. General.[91][92]

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 U.S. Air Force had".[19]

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.[19] 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.[93]

According to a 2020 study, Mohamed's reforms successfully increased the effectiveness of the UAE military.[94]

Controversies Edit

On 17 July 2020, a French investigating magistrate was appointed to carry out the probe targeting Mohamed bin Zayed for "complicity in the acts of torture" citing the UAE's involvement in the Yemen civil war.[95] The investigation was initially opened in October 2019, after two complaints were filed against the Crown Prince during his official visit to Paris in November 2018. 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.[96] 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.[97]

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."[98] 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 failing to register as a foreign lobbyist for the UAE, obstructing justice and lying to investigators.[99] 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.[100] In 2022, Barrack was found not guilty on all charges.[101]

On 17 July 2022, Mohamed visited France to meet President Emmanuel Macron. It was his first foreign travel since becoming the UAE president.[102] 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.[103]

In 2023, The New Yorker reported that Mohamed was paying millions of euros to a Swiss-based private investigation firm, Alp Services, for orchestrating a smear campaign against its targets, including Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood. As part of this campaign, Alp posted false and defamatory Wikipedia entries and published propaganda articles against the targets. Multiple meetings took place between the Alp Services head, Mario Brero, and an Emirati official, Matar Humaid al-Neyadi. However, Alp's bills were sent directly to MbZ. The defamation campaign also targeted an American, Hazim Nada, and his firm Lord Energy, because his father Youssef Nada had joined the Muslim Brotherhood as a teenager. Nada had approached a former security official close to MbZ, Abdul Rehman al-Blouki, in hope of a financial settlement. However, Blouki warned him to not threaten the Emirates.[104] The information was acquired through confidential documents obtained through a hack into Alp Services. An investigation, termed Abu Dhabi Secrets, was run into the documents. It further revealed that Mario Brero provided the UAE with a list of over 1,000 individuals and 400 organizations in Europe, including over 200 individuals and 120 organizations in France, who were falsely linked to radical Islam.[105]

Philanthropy Edit

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

Mohamed has gifted 55 million AED to the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking,[106] committed to raise $100 million for the Reaching the Last Mile Fund,[107] pledged $50 million for children vaccine efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan,[108][109][110][111] and contributed $30 million to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership.[112][113][114] 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.[115] 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.[116][117]

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.[118][119][120][121]

Mohamed has been involved in efforts to protect wild falcons, bustards, and the Arabian oryx. He donated $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.[122] He heads the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund.[123][124][125]

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.[126][127] 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.[128]

Personal life Edit

Mohamed is married to Sheikha Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan.[129] They married in 1980.[130] They have nine children together, four sons and five daughters. They have two adopted daughters, and together they have 17 grandchildren.[21]

  • 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 four children:
    • Hessa bint Mohammed Al Nahyan (born 22 May 2003)
    • Zayed bin Mohammed Al Nahyan (born 29 December 2005)
    • Salama bint Mohammed Al Nahyan (born 11 July 2007)
    • Fatima bint Mohammed Al Nahyan
  • 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)
  • Sheikha Fatima bint Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was born in 1989. She is married to Sheikh Nahyan bin Saif Al Nahyan. They have three sons:
    • 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)
  • 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.[131][132][133]

Succession Edit

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.[134]

Honours Edit

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

Place named after him Edit

In April 2021, the Jakarta–Cikampek Elevated Toll Road in Indonesia was renamed as Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Skyway (Jalan Layang Mohamed bin Zayed), at the behest of the Indonesian President's secretary.[146]

Ancestry Edit

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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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MbZ redirects here For other uses of the initials MBZ see MBZ In this Arabic name the surname is Al Nahyan Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan Arabic محمد بن زايد آل نهيان romanized Muḥammad bin Zayid Al Nahyan born 11 March 1961 popularly known by his initials as MBZ 2 3 is the third president of the United Arab Emirates and the ruler of Abu Dhabi 4 Sheikh Mohamed is the third son of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan who was the first president of the UAE and the ruler of Abu Dhabi 5 Mohamed bin Zayed Al NahyanMohamed in 20213rd President of the United Arab EmiratesIncumbentAssumed office 14 May 2022Prime MinisterMohammed bin Rashid Al MaktoumVice PresidentMohammed bin Rashid Al MaktoumMansour bin Zayed Al NahyanPreceded byKhalifa bin Zayed Al NahyanRuler of Abu DhabiReign13 May 2022 presentPredecessorKhalifa bin Zayed Al NahyanHeir apparentKhaled bin Mohamed Al NahyanBorn 1961 03 11 11 March 1961 age 62 Al Ain Trucial StatesSpouseSalama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan m 1981 wbr IssueSheikha Mariam Sheikh Khaled Sheikha Shamsa Sheikh Theyab Sheikh Hamdan Sheikha Fatima Sheikha Shamma Sheikh Zayed Sheikha Hassa Amina adopted Salha adopted NamesSheikh 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 ياسHouseAl NahyanFatherZayed bin Sultan Al NahyanMotherFatima bint Mubarak Al KetbiReligionSunni IslamEducationRoyal Military Academy SandhurstMilitary careerAllegianceUnited Arab EmiratesService wbr branchUnited Arab Emirates Air ForceYears of service1979 presentRankGeneralCommands heldCommander in ChiefChief of Staff of the Armed ForcesDeputy Chief of Staff of the Armed ForcesCommander of the Air Force and Air DefenceWebsiteMohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on TwitterMohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on InstagramIn 2019 The New York Times named him as the most powerful Arab ruler and one of the most powerful men on Earth 6 He was also named as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2019 by Time Magazine 7 8 Sheikh Mohamed is regarded by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre as the eighth most influential Muslim in the world in 2023 9 Contents 1 Family and early life 2 Education 3 Political career 3 1 Emirate of Abu Dhabi 3 2 UAE foreign policy 3 2 1 United States 3 2 2 Egypt 3 2 3 Russia 3 2 4 Turkey 3 3 Nuclear energy 3 4 Religion in the UAE 4 Domestic policy 4 1 Authoritarianism 4 2 Economic policy 5 Military 6 Controversies 7 Philanthropy 8 Personal life 9 Succession 10 Honours 10 1 Place named after him 11 Ancestry 12 References 13 External linksFamily and early life EditSheikh Mohamed bin Zayed was born in Al Ain on 11 March 1961 in what was then the Trucial States 10 11 12 He is the third son of Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan the first President of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi and his third wife Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi 13 14 Mohamed has 16 brothers Hamdan Hazza Saeed Isa Nahyan Saif Tahnoun Mansour Falah Diab Omar Khalid the late Khalifa the late Sultan the late Nasser and the late Ahmed In addition to these he has several sisters 15 He has five younger full brothers Hamdan Hazza Tahnoun Mansour and Abdullah 16 They are referred to as Bani Fatima or sons of Fatima 17 18 Education EditHis father Sheikh Zayed sent him to Morocco intending for it to be a disciplinary experience He gave him a passport showing a different last name so that he would not be treated like royalty Mohamed spent several months working as a waiter in a local restaurant He made his own meals and did his own laundry and was often lonely Mohamed described his life back then by saying There d be a bowl of tabbouleh in the fridge and I d keep eating from it day after day until a kind of fungus formed on the top 19 Sheikh Mohamed was further educated at schools in Al Ain Abu Dhabi and a summer at Gordonstoun until the age of 18 In the Emirates his father put a respected Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Islamic scholar named Izzedine Ibrahim in charge of his education 19 20 In 1979 he joined the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst graduating in April 1979 21 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 15 During his time in Sandhurst he met and became good friends with Abdullah of Pahang who would later become King of Malaysia They were both officer cadets at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 22 In the 1980s as a young military officer on holiday in Tanzania Mohamed 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 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 19 Mohamed then returned home to the UAE to join the Officers Training Course in Sharjah 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 21 Political career EditEmirate of Abu Dhabi Edit nbsp Mohamed and U S President George W Bush at Camp DavidIn November 2003 Sheikh Zayed appointed his son Mohamed as Deputy Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi 23 24 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 25 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 26 He also served as a special adviser to his older half brother Khalifa bin Zayed President of the UAE citation needed As a result of Sheikh Khalifa s ill health 27 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 28 29 30 On 13 May 2022 he became the ruler of Abu Dhabi following the death of his brother Khalifa 31 On 14 May 2022 he was elected as the President of the United Arab Emirates 32 UAE foreign policy Edit nbsp Sheikh Mohamed representing the United Arab Emirates in the NSS 2012In 2018 Mohamed traveled 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 33 34 35 Mohamed is a supporter of Yemen s internationally recognized government after the Yemen civil war and supported the Saudi led western backed intervention in Yemen to drive out Houthi militants after the Houthi takeover in Yemen 36 During Mohamed s visit to France in November 2018 a group of rights activists filed a lawsuit against the crown prince accusing him of war crimes and complicity in 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 37 United States Edit nbsp Mohamed with U S President Joe Biden at the GCC 3 summit in Jeddah Saudi Arabia 16 July 2022Mohamed 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 According to an Emirati senior adviser His Highness felt that the UAE had made sacrifices and then been excluded Mohamed continued talking to Obama regularly and offered him advice He warned him that the proposed remedy in Syria Islamist rebels could be worse than Bashar al Assad s tyranny He also urged Obama to talk to the Russians about working together on Syria 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 19 38 Mohamed shared similar ideas with President Trump regarding Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood as Trump has sought to move strongly against both 39 When Mohamed was a child his father Sheikh Zayed unknowingly assigned a prominent 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 believe these guys have an agenda 40 Trump also shared Mohamed s views on Qatar Libya and Saudi Arabia even over the advice of cabinet officials and senior national security staff 41 In August 2020 Trump Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sheikh Mohamed jointly announced the establishment of formal Israel United Arab Emirates relations 42 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 43 Egypt Edit 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 44 45 Russia Edit nbsp Russian president Vladimir Putin meeting with Sheikh Mohamed in Saint Petersburg on 11 October 2022Mohamed maintains a strong relationship with Russia and its president 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 46 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 47 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 39 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 48 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 first Arab Astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri to the International Space Station with Russian help On 11 October 2022 Sheikh Mohamed met with Putin in Saint Petersburg days after OPEC cut oil production 49 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 MbZ 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 50 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 51 The UAE was however criticized for supporting Russia s war in Ukraine 52 where the Emirates also became a mediator in sending Chinese weapons to Russia 53 Turkey Edit In August 2021 Mohamed held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss reinforcing relations between their two countries 54 This came after years of each state supporting opposing sides in regional conflicts such as that in Libya 54 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 U S troops 55 Nuclear energy Edit 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 56 The UAE and US signed a bilateral agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation that enhances international standards of nuclear non proliferation 57 Mohamed was at the Nuclear Security Summit of 2012 58 and 2014 which were hosted by South Korea and the Netherlands respectively 59 Religion in the UAE Edit See also Freedom of religion in the United Arab Emirates nbsp 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 60 The UAE government tightly controls and monitors Muslim practices 61 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 61 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 62 63 64 Over the course of the last years the Emirati government has been promoting Hinduism and has built several Hindu temples 65 UAE has seen the rise of Hindutva advocacy 66 and the authorities allowed the screening of movies like The Kashmir files a film banned in Singapore 67 Domestic policy EditAuthoritarianism Edit Political scientists have characterized Mohamed bin Zayed as the strongman leader of an authoritarian regime 68 69 70 71 as there are no free and fair elections 72 political and civil rights are limited 73 free speech is restricted 73 74 and there are no free and independent media 72 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 75 73 Political scientist Christopher Davidson has characterized Mohamed s tenure as de facto UAE leader as entailing a marked and rapid intensification of autocratic authoritarianism 69 Democracy indicators show recent and substantial efforts to tighten up almost all remaining political and civic freedoms 69 According to Andreas Krieg Mohamed s political ideology holds that strongman authoritarianism is the optimal governance system for the UAE 68 Krieg writes 68 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 68 Economic policy Edit Scholars have characterized the UAE under Mohamed bin Zayed s regime as a rentier state 76 He heads the Abu Dhabi Council for Economic Development ADCED 77 78 79 and is the Deputy Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority ADIA 80 He is the chairman of the Mubadala Development Company 25 an Emirati state owned holding company that can be characterized as a sovereign wealth fund 77 81 and the Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority the Sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi 82 21 He is the head of the Tawazun Economic Council formerly known as UAE offsets programme bureau established in 1992 83 and is the head of the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge which was established in 2005 84 85 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 86 In June 2018 Mohamed approved a three year 50 billion AED stimulus package He also commissioned a review of building regulations in an effort to galvanize urban development 87 Mohamed is Chairman of the Supreme Petroleum Council of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company The council is the primary governing body of Abu Dhabi s hydrocarbon resources 88 89 90 Military EditMain article United Arab Emirates Armed Forces nbsp Mohamed as Chief of Staff in his air force military uniform greeting then U S Secretary of Defense William S Cohen in Abu Dhabi 1997Mohamed 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 Lt General 91 92 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 U S Air Force had 19 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 19 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 93 According to a 2020 study Mohamed s reforms successfully increased the effectiveness of the UAE military 94 Controversies EditOn 17 July 2020 a French investigating magistrate was appointed to carry out the probe targeting Mohamed bin Zayed for complicity in the acts of torture citing the UAE s involvement in the Yemen civil war 95 The investigation was initially opened in October 2019 after two complaints were filed against the Crown Prince during his official visit to Paris in November 2018 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 96 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 97 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 98 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 failing to register as a foreign lobbyist for the UAE obstructing justice and lying to investigators 99 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 100 In 2022 Barrack was found not guilty on all charges 101 On 17 July 2022 Mohamed visited France to meet President Emmanuel Macron It was his first foreign travel since becoming the UAE president 102 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 103 In 2023 The New Yorker reported that Mohamed was paying millions of euros to a Swiss based private investigation firm Alp Services for orchestrating a smear campaign against its targets including Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood As part of this campaign Alp posted false and defamatory Wikipedia entries and published propaganda articles against the targets Multiple meetings took place between the Alp Services head Mario Brero and an Emirati official Matar Humaid al Neyadi However Alp s bills were sent directly to MbZ The defamation campaign also targeted an American Hazim Nada and his firm Lord Energy because his father Youssef Nada had joined the Muslim Brotherhood as a teenager Nada had approached a former security official close to MbZ Abdul Rehman al Blouki in hope of a financial settlement However Blouki warned him to not threaten the Emirates 104 The information was acquired through confidential documents obtained through a hack into Alp Services An investigation termed Abu Dhabi Secrets was run into the documents It further revealed that Mario Brero provided the UAE with a list of over 1 000 individuals and 400 organizations in Europe including over 200 individuals and 120 organizations in France who were falsely linked to radical Islam 105 Philanthropy Edit nbsp Mohamed with U S President Donald Trump in Washington D C May 2017Mohamed has gifted 55 million AED to the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking 106 committed to raise 100 million for the Reaching the Last Mile Fund 107 pledged 50 million for children vaccine efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan 108 109 110 111 and contributed 30 million to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership 112 113 114 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 115 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 116 117 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 118 119 120 121 Mohamed has been involved in efforts to protect wild falcons bustards and the Arabian oryx He donated 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 122 He heads the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund 123 124 125 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 126 127 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 128 Personal life EditMohamed is married to Sheikha Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan 129 They married in 1980 130 They have nine children together four sons and five daughters They have two adopted daughters and together they have 17 grandchildren 21 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 four children Hessa bint Mohammed Al Nahyan born 22 May 2003 Zayed bin Mohammed Al Nahyan born 29 December 2005 Salama bint Mohammed Al Nahyan born 11 July 2007 Fatima bint Mohammed Al Nahyan 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 Sheikha Fatima bint Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was born in 1989 She is married to Sheikh Nahyan bin Saif Al Nahyan They have three sons 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 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 daughterA 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 131 132 133 Succession EditMohamed in his capacity as ruler of Abu Dhabi has issued an Emiri decree appointing his son Khaled bin 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