The UAE's connectivity isn't actually bad. Latency to most of SEA is quite good (50ms to India, 80ms to Singapore).

But for what I assume to be political reasons latency to Europe is about 20 or 30ms higher then what it could be .

When I was there, I could get sub 100ms latency to France using a Wireguard tunnel to an AWS server in Bahrain, while direct connections were closer to 120-130ms.

Overall though, I found connectivity in the UAE to be absolutely fine by middle eastern standards.