The Monks in the Basement: Religious Infrastructure in Wartime Abu Dhabi
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“The first night, the kids just cried,” Priya told me. “They didn’t stop.”
We were speaking a few weeks after February 28, 2026, when the escalating US-Israel-Iran conflict reached UAE airspace and interceptor missiles broke across the sky above Abu Dhabi. A couple in their thirties, originally from the UK, Priya and Prashant had moved to the Emirates for work years earlier. For their children, the crisis was terrifying: loud emergency alerts, house-shaking explosions, all of them sleeping in
We were speaking a few weeks after February 28, 2026, when the escalating US-Israel-Iran conflict reached UAE airspace and interceptor missiles broke across the sky above Abu Dhabi. A couple in their thirties, originally from the UK, Priya and Prashant had moved to the Emirates for work years earlier. For their children, the crisis was terrifying: loud emergency alerts, house-shaking explosions, all of them sleeping in
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