He may run into some issues if he’s not careful with whom he’s discussing such issues with in many Gulf States even the relatively more liberal ones.
There’s also the issue of even American-based universities like NYU being found to have used subcontractors who failed to pay construction workers promised wages in a timely manner, housed them in overcrowded conditions, and restricted their freedom of movement/mistreated them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/nyregion/workers-at-nyus-abu-dhabi-site-face-harsh-conditions.html
While NYU denies knowing about what these subcontractors did, many who have spent time working in or have working knowledge of labor practices in those regions feel those American-based unis’ denials is akin to them playing the part of the Casablanca police officer who expressed shock at gambling in Bogart’s establishment while attempting to secretly pocket his winnings.