Greater and Lesser Tunbs
The son of Sultan bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Sheikh Khalid graduated from the American University of Sharjah (BSc, International Relations). He completed an MA by Research at Durham University () in 2008. He earned his PhD from the Department of War Studies at King's College London in 2014. He is the author of "The Three Islands - mapping the UAE-Iran dispute", a book detailing the Seizure of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs which was published in 2013.