Yeah, I second this. I've never been to the Middle East and I haven't heard the best things about living/working there as a foreigner, but it's absolutely doable - I knew a couple guys in Nepal who would go to Saudi Arabia and Dubai for work (cattle ranches or something), visa and all. Other folks from India and other places who would go for tech work, engineering, etc - all over the Middle East (even Oman) and it's not so bad. There are stable, thriving economies there.
Both are true. My experience (primarily from UAE and Qatar) is that, if you have skills that are in short supply then you can get excellent, tax-free salaries with fantastic benefits.
If you're there for manual/low skilled work then the pay and conditions (relative to, say, Europe) can be appalling.
Exactly, I can give more detail, but for obvious reasons I will not.
Given what he posted, he is either from Syria or Yemen. And this is why, knowing the breakdown that you summarized, he will most certainly face a tough time.
I work with many people on both sides of this spectrum, and hence my warning.
This fits what I've heard from people who went (having passports confiscated and held against their will, being put in prison until they signed their companies away, things like that).
