Morocco’s king arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Monday for the latest leg of a Gulf tour, showing how Arab world revolts have drawn together the region’s monarchs and left poorer countries seeking help from the petrostates.
King Mohammed VI’s five-country trip offers him the prospect of needed investment to help shore up his power, analysts say, while for the Gulf royal families he is a useful example of a leader adapting to regional political change by introducing limited reforms.
While the revolts sweeping the Arab world have so far unseated only dictators in republics, the mass opposition street protests in Kuwait late on Sunday were – like the 20-month-old Bahrain uprising – a reminder that neither the Gulf nor its highly-controlling monarchies are immune from unrest.
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