The Middle East, and more specifically the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have transformed in ways that would have sounded like a utopian vision 30 years ago. From a nomad, underdeveloped economy that arose as a result of limited arable land and harsh climate, the entire region suddenly awoke with a big boom after the discovery of one of the world’s greatest deposits of oil and gas, just at the time when the world grew hungry for it. The UAE, one of the most iconic GCC countries, raised its GDP…