Is this a paid advertisement for UAE in the Huffington Post? What is with Huffington Post and Gulf regimes?

First, Huffington Arabic has been turned into a crude and vulgar platform for the Qatari regime. And now this PR piece about the UAE ambassador (son of UAE oil minister of the 1970s, renowned for buying degrees like he bought hotels) in DC.  This man spends more on PR than any other government in DC: "Otaiba’s entrée to D.C. was aided by the UAE’s willingness to pour astronomical sums of money into improving its public standing in the U.S. It now spends more money on lobbying than any other foreign government ($14.2 million dollars in 2013). That’s in addition to hundreds of millions in philanthropic giving (UAE entities gave at least $2 million to the Clinton Foundation alone by 2008), as well as billion-dollar investments in U.S businesses. In a 2010 Aspen appearance, Otaiba made a point of remarking that the U.S. “is actually a beneficiary of our oil revenues," by way of at least $10 billion that the UAE had invested in various US projects just that year. One Washington operative who has the UAE as a client even created a video mashup of Dubai Ports World news footage, which he shows to wealthy Emirati to remind them of the importance of D.C.-oriented giving."  This man flies Washington, DC journalists in a private jet to attend Formula One.