What is your one wish for the UAE?

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What is your one wish for the UAE? We ask young professionals working in the United Arab Emirates to share their one wish for the UAE.  Gulf News: What's our future?  See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00I wish that Allah will always protect our country and make it safe, as well as bless

00:20our Sheikh, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

00:25with long, happy and prosperous lives, because if it was not for them, we wouldn't have

00:29reached the place we are in today, by obtaining one of the strongest and most rapid civilizations

00:35ever.

00:36UAE has some brilliant heritage spaces.

00:38I love the fact that there are areas like Berdouba and Dera and Satwa and Karama.

00:43That's where the heart and soul is.

00:44So if I had any wish, it would be that these areas remain or that their soul and their

00:50essence isn't taken down.

00:52If I could see more heritage areas, more community spaces, more parks, I'd love that.

00:59The UAE is investing so much and growing so many different sectors, but I really hope

01:04they continue to promote the arts, because we've seen an emerging arts scene here, whether

01:09it's music, writing, painting.

01:12It's really growing and I hope that over the next few decades, this continues to grow and

01:17people are allowed to tell their stories, not just Emiratis, but people from all around

01:21the Arab world, people from all around the world.

01:24If the UAE can become the place to go to tell your story, then for me, that's a great thing.

01:29The UAE has set a really great precedent for the value of tolerance and acknowledging

01:36and accepting difference.

01:39And from a Western perspective, I think people often think of the region, the Middle East,

01:44as somewhere that's full of conflict and unrest.

01:48And I think if that example of tolerance was taken elsewhere, not just in the region actually,

01:54but in the rest of the world as well, and made a success of, I think that would be a

01:59really great thing.

02:00To stay in peace, to stay safe, to always gather so much loving energy, because it's

02:07when you have so much love for the place that it prospers, and that's exactly what's happening.

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