Welcoming the New in Citizenship and State Building

The conference on Citizenship, Identity, and the Values of Coexistence, held by the Mohamed bin Zayed University for Humanities on April 15 and 16, provided an opportunity for researchers and senior professors to discuss three critical topics that preoccupy the world today: the state, identity, and citizenship. Citizenship exists only in the state, and the state legislates it. Moreover, the state's existence is influenced, at least in part, by t…