It is completely acceptable for a woman to work, travel, spend forty hours a week with her male co-workers. However, she can not take pictures with them. 

Co-worker 1: Sorry, we don't take photos. Mangood. 3eib. Am not allowed to.

Me: Why?

Co-worker 2: Cause we just dont trust people. You never know who will get hold of them.

Me: So you mean you don't trust your co-workers? Cause no one else will look at them.

Co-worker 1: No of course I trust them! 

Co-worker 2: It's not about trust. The guys I work with are amazing.

Me: 3eyal? what is it? 

Co-worker 1: Ah well you never know!

I just don't get the whole stigma around taking and publishing Emirati women's photos.

We have 4 women in our cabinet
50 percent of the jobs in the ministries and federal organizations are occupied by Emirati women.

We have the youngest female judge in the Arab World. 
We have women working as public prosecutors, doctors, engineers, pilots, etc.
Over 70 percent of Emirati undergraduates are women.

But the majority of the women still thinks that it's unacceptable for others to see their photos.