Futures studies and foresight play a critical role in enhancing one’s capacity to ‘use-the-future’ in order to pursue both personal and institutional well-being and development. It is an emerging concept that is promoted as a necessary literacy skill by the United Nations under UNESCO, which corresponds with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Many countries have adopted this as a national agenda, but it is still underdeveloped in the Islamic world. This can be attributed to the scarcity of talents in the field, lack of public awareness and the level of effort to integrate it as part of the education process towards long term social transformation. This paper aims at introducing futures studies and foresight to the Islamic world, with an exploration of appropriate methods to allow deeper articulation of the Islamic context of futures. Apart from literature reviews, the approach applied for this article is qualitative observations from Focus Group Discussions (FGD) with Islamic scholars and Muslim youths. This is essential to garner feedback and interest in futures studies, and to relate it to Islamic texts and traditions. The trajectory of this study is geared towards shared prosperity and social well-being, to live in co-existence with other faiths, respond, revisit and adapt to cultures, enhance the empowerment of women and youth, as well as nation building.

The working paper deals with the issue of the legal protection of the marine environment in the United Arab Emirates and the importance of the working paper lies in the fact that the protection of the marine environment is of special importance for the UAE, with its marine coasts overlooking the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. We have preferred to focus on the marine environment, which the legislator has devoted to Federal Law for the Protection and Development of the Environment No. (24) for the year 1999 AD includes a special section that includes (15) articles of (Articles 21-34) related to the legal protection of the marine environment. The problem arises and the main study questions what the legal means to protect the marine environment are? To answer this question and problem, we must clarify what the marine environment is and the importance of protecting it, by defining the marine environment and the scope of its protection , To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher relied on the descriptive and analytical approach to study the legal model for the protection of the marine environment in terms of dealing with the nature of the marine environment and the importance of its protection, the sources of pollution of the marine environment, and the legal means to protect the marine environment, and then we end this participation with a conclusion that includes the outcome of the results we have reached with recommendations, And which we believe will contribute to illuminating some shadow areas and ambiguities related to the legal protection of the marine environment in the United Arab Emirates.