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Showpiece city : how architecture made Dubai
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ISBN: 9781503609884 9781503613867 1503613860 Year: 2021 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,

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Staggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous—this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival. In 1959, experts agreed that if Dubai was to become something more than an unruly port, a plan was needed. Specifically, a town plan was prescribed to fortify the city from obscurity and disorder. With the proverbial handshake, Dubai's ruler hired British architect John Harris to design Dubai's strategy for capturing the world's attention—and then its investments. Showpiece City recounts the story of how Harris and other hired professionals planned Dubai's spectacular transformation through the 1970s. Drawing on exclusive interviews, private archives, dog-eared photographs, and previously overlooked government documents, Todd Reisz reveals the braggadocio and persistence that sold Dubai as a profitable business plan. Architecture made that plan something to behold. Reisz highlights initial architectural achievements—including the city's first hospital, national bank, and skyscraper—designed as showpieces to proclaim Dubai's place on the world stage. Reisz explores the overlooked history of a skyline that did not simply rise from the sands. In the city's earliest modern architecture, he finds the foundations of an urban survival strategy of debt-wielding brinkmanship and constant pitch making. Dubai became a testing ground for the global city—and prefigured how urbanization now happens everywhere.


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Showpiece City
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ISBN: 1503613860 150360988X Year: 2020 Publisher: Stanford University Press

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Staggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous—this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival. In 1959, experts agreed that if Dubai was to become something more than an unruly port, a plan was needed. Specifically, a town plan was prescribed to fortify the city from obscurity and disorder. With the proverbial handshake, Dubai's ruler hired British architect John Harris to design Dubai's strategy for capturing the world's attention—and then its investments. Showpiece City recounts the story of how Harris and other hired professionals planned Dubai's spectacular transformation through the 1970s. Drawing on exclusive interviews, private archives, dog-eared photographs, and previously overlooked government documents, Todd Reisz reveals the braggadocio and persistence that sold Dubai as a profitable business plan. Architecture made that plan something to behold. Reisz highlights initial architectural achievements—including the city's first hospital, national bank, and skyscraper—designed as showpieces to proclaim Dubai's place on the world stage. Reisz explores the overlooked history of a skyline that did not simply rise from the sands. In the city's earliest modern architecture, he finds the foundations of an urban survival strategy of debt-wielding brinkmanship and constant pitch making. Dubai became a testing ground for the global city—and prefigured how urbanization now happens everywhere.


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Britain and the administration of the Trucial States 1947-1965
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ISBN: 9948146387 9789948146384 9948146379 9789948146377 Year: 2013 Publisher: Abu Dhabi Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research

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For over 150 years, from 1820 up to the foundation of the United Arab Emirates in 1971, Britain and the emirates of the eastern Arabian Peninsula were linked by a relationship that was unique when compared to colonial models exercised elsewhere. From the signing of the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Gulf in 1820, through to the oil and aviation concession agreements penned during the mid- to late-20th century, formal treaties and agreements with the rulers of the various emirates formed the basis of Britain's long influence in the region, and are discussed in detail in this study. It also explores the evolution of the area's first security force in the early 1950s - the Trucial Oman Levies (TOL), which played a key role in the security and development of the emirates.

Folklore and folklife in the United Arab Emirates
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ISBN: 0415616395 1315028689 1136849149 1136849076 9781136849145 9781136849077 0700714138 9780700714131 9781315028682 9781136849213 9780415616393 Year: 2013 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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A unique description and analysis of the domains and genres of UAE folklore, including folk customs and beliefs, traditional arts and crafts, folk dances, folk narratives and proverbs. Challenging the established meaning of folklife, this volume also deals with folklore in public life, in the mass media, in education and in politics.


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United Arab Emirates : conditions, issues and U.S. relations
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ISBN: 9781629484525 1629484520 1629484512 9781629484518 Year: 2013 Publisher: Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers,

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a federation of seven emirates (principalities): Abu Dhabi, the oil-rich capital of the federation; Dubai, its free-trading commercial hub; and the five smaller and less wealthy emirates of Sharjah, Ajman, Fujayrah, Umm al-Qaywayn, and Ras al-Khaymah. The UAE's relatively open borders and economy have won praise from advocates of expanded freedoms in the Middle East while producing financial excesses, social ills such as human trafficking, and opportunity for UAE-based Iranian businesses to try to circumvent international sanctions. The social and economic freedoms have not translated into significant political change; the UAE government remains under the control of a small circle of leaders who allow citizen participation primarily through traditional methods of consensus-building. To date, these mechanisms, economic wealth, and reverence for established leaders have enabled the UAE to avoid wide-scale popular unrest. Since 2006, the government has increased formal popular participation in governance through a public selection process for half the membership of its consultative body, the Federal National Council (FNC). But, particularly since the Arab uprisings that began in 2011, there has been an increase in domestic criticism of the unchallenged power and privileges of the UAE ruling elite as well as the spending of large amounts of funds on elaborate projects that cater to tourists. The leadership has resisted any dramatic or rapid further opening of the political process, and it is becoming increasingly aggressive in preventing the rise of Muslim Brotherhood- linked Islamist, as well as secular opposition movements. The crackdown is drawing increased criticism from human rights groups. This book examines the UAE's 2012 human rights and religious freedom reports; its problem with human trafficking; the economic investment climate; and relations with the U.S.


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Resources blessed : diversification and the gulf development Model
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ISBN: 3940924075 9783940924070 9783940924025 3940924024 Year: 2012 Publisher: [Berlin] : Gerlach Press,

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United Arab Emirates --- Saudi Arabia --- Qatar --- Catal --- Catar --- Chatar --- Daulat Qaṭar --- Dawlat Qaṭar --- Država Katar --- Dzi︠a︡rz︠h︡ava Katar --- Emirat Katar --- Emiratu de Qatar --- Estado de Catar --- Estato de Qatar --- Estau de Catal --- Ètat du Qatar --- Gwladwriaeth Qatar --- Katala --- Katar --- Kʼatár Bikéyah --- Katari Riik --- Kataro --- Kratos tou Katar --- Medinat Ḳaṭar --- Qatarin valtio --- Qatarko estatua --- Staat Katar --- Staat van Katar --- Stad Katar --- Stad Qatar --- Stát Katar --- State of Qatar --- Steat ny Catar --- Κράτος του Κατάρ --- Κατάρ --- Катар --- Дзяржава Катар --- קטאר --- מדינת קטאר --- دولة قطر --- قطر --- Federation of Arab Emirates --- UAE (United Arab Emirates) --- Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah --- إمارات العربية المتحدة --- Ittiḥād al-Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah --- اتحاد الإمارات العربية --- Ittiḥād Imārāt al-Khalīj al-ʻArabī --- اتحاد إمارات الخليج العربي --- Fédération des Emirats unis --- Union des Emirats arabes --- U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates) --- Emirats arabes unis --- Vereinigte Arabische Emirate --- Arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraattien liitto --- Yhdistyneet arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraatit --- Arabiemiirikuntien liitto --- Emiraatit --- Förenade Arabemiraten --- Arabemiraten --- アラブ首長国連邦 --- Arabu Shuchōkoku Renpō --- Trucial States --- Economic conditions.


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With united strength : H.H. Shaikh Zayid Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the leader and the nation.
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ISBN: 9948145763 9948145755 Year: 2013 Publisher: Abu Dhabi : Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research,

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Against the backdrop of the British withdrawal from the Arabian Gulf region, it was H.H. Shaikh Zayid who accomplished the complex task of unifying the erstwhile Trucial States, creating the only thriving federal state in the Middle East. While fulfilling his personal destiny as the chosen leader, H.H. Shaikh Zayid strengthened the nation by uniting disparate tribal groups and sustained it against formidable challenges. He pioneered the modernization of the country and ultimately realized his dream of an effective framework for collaboration with neighboring Gulf states. The UAE has since become a constructive force within the region and beyond, exemplifying the principles of national unity, regional solidarity, international cooperation and religious tolerance.

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Presidents --- Presidency --- Heads of state --- Executive power --- Zāyid ibn Sulṭān Āl Nahayyān, --- Zāyid ibn Sulṭān Āl Nihayyān, --- Āl Nahayyān, Zāyid ibn Sulṭān, --- Al Nuhyan, Zayid ibn Sultan, --- Zāyid ibn Sulṭān Āl Nuhyān, --- Āl Nahyān, Zāyid ibn Sulṭān, --- Āl Nihayyān, Zāyid ibn Sulṭān, --- Al Nihyan, Zaid bin Sultan, --- Zaid bin Sultan Al Nihyan, --- Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nhayyan, --- Al-Nhayyan, Zayed bin Sultan, --- Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahayyan, --- Nahayyan, Zayed bin Sultan, --- Al-Nahayyan, Zayed bin Sultan, --- Zayed ben Sultan Al-Nahyan, --- Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, --- Shaykh Zayed, --- Zayed, --- ايد بن سلطان آل نهيان، --- ريد ابن سلطان --- زايد بن سلطان آل نهيان --- زايد بن سلطان آل نهيان، --- United Arab Emirates --- Federation of Arab Emirates --- UAE (United Arab Emirates) --- Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah --- إمارات العربية المتحدة --- Ittiḥād al-Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah --- اتحاد الإمارات العربية --- Ittiḥād Imārāt al-Khalīj al-ʻArabī --- اتحاد إمارات الخليج العربي --- Fédération des Emirats unis --- Union des Emirats arabes --- U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates) --- Emirats arabes unis --- Vereinigte Arabische Emirate --- Arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraattien liitto --- Yhdistyneet arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraatit --- Arabiemiirikuntien liitto --- Emiraatit --- Förenade Arabemiraten --- Arabemiraten --- アラブ首長国連邦 --- Arabu Shuchōkoku Renpō --- Trucial States --- Politics and government --- History --- Zāyid ibn Sulṭān Āl Nahayyān,


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Environmental burden of disease assessment : a case study in the United Arab Emirates
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ISSN: 13823124 ISBN: 940079374X 940075924X 9400759258 1299407420 Year: 2013 Volume: v. 24 Publisher: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer,

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This publication characterizes the environmental burden of disease in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), measured by the excess number of deaths and illnesses in the population due to exposure to environmental hazards. The robust methods used in this risk analysis can be applied to any country or region. This publication documents the systematic, multi-step process used to identify environmental priorities and the detailed methods used to quantify the disease burden attributable to each risk. Based on the results of the burden of disease assessment, the publication summarizes the subsequent steps that are recommended to further reduce the burden of disease resulting from various environmental risk factors.

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Environmental health. --- Environmental monitoring. --- Health risk assessment. --- Immunization. --- Environmental health --- Environmentally induced diseases --- Human ecology --- Middle East --- Public Health --- Hypersensitivity --- Environmental Pollution --- Risk --- Medicine --- Asia, Western --- Immune System Diseases --- Probability --- Health Occupations --- Diseases --- Environment and Public Health --- Statistics as Topic --- Asia --- Geographic Locations --- Health Care --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Investigative Techniques --- Geographicals --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Environmental Exposure --- Epidemiology --- Risk Assessment --- Environmental Illness --- United Arab Emirates --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Environmental Health --- Public health --- Environment. --- Public health. --- Environmental law. --- Environmental policy. --- Pollution. --- Environmental Health. --- Public Health. --- Pollution, general. --- Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Environmental quality --- Health ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental Medicine. --- Environment law --- Environmental control --- Environmental protection --- Environmental policy --- Law --- Sustainable development --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Law and legislation --- Environment and state --- Environmental management --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Government policy --- United Arab Emirates. --- Arabemiraten --- Arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiirikuntien liitto --- Arabiemiraatit --- Arabiemiraattien liitto --- Arabu Shuchōkoku Renp --- Emiraatit --- Emirats arabes unis --- Fédération des Emirats unis --- Federation of Arab Emirates --- Förenade Arabemiraten --- Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah --- Ittiḥād al-Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah --- Ittiḥād Imārāt al-Khalīj al-ʻArab --- Trucial States --- Union des Emirats arabes --- Vereinigte Arabische Emirate --- Yhdistyneet arabiemiirikunnat


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GCC financial markets : the world's new money centers
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ISBN: 3940924083 9783940924087 9783940924032 3940924032 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berlin : Gerlach Pr,

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Economic development. --- Economic development --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Gulf Cooperation Council. --- Gulf Co-operation Council --- Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf --- States of Gulf Co-operation Council --- Golf-Rat --- GCC --- G.C.C. --- Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī --- Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī al-ʻArabī --- GKR --- Kooperationsrat Arabischer Staaten am Golf --- Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf --- Duwal Majlis al-Khalīj --- Gŏlpʻŭ Hyŏmnyŏk Wiwŏnhoe --- Kŏlpʻŭ Hyŏmnyŏk Wiwŏnhoe --- Majlis al-Taʻāwun li-Duwal al-Khalīj al-ʻArabīyah --- Golfkooperationsrat --- AGCC --- A.G.C.C. --- Duwal Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī --- Sovet sotrudnichestva arabskikh gosudarstv Persidskogo zaliva --- SSAGPZ --- Arab Gulf Cooperation Council --- مجلس التعاون الخليجي --- مجلس التعاون لدول الخليج العربية --- Shūrā-yi Hamkārī-i Khalīj-i Fārs --- شوراى همکارى خليج فارس --- Persian Gulf Cooperation Council --- PGCC --- Conseil de coopération du Golfe --- Gulf Cooperative Council --- Consiglio di cooperazione del Golfo --- Ccg --- United Arab Emirates --- Saudi Arabia --- Qatar --- Oman --- Sultanate of Oman --- ʻUmān (Sultanate) --- Salṭanat ʻUmān --- Muscat --- Mascate --- عمان --- سلطنة عُمان --- オマーン --- オーマン --- Muscat and Oman --- Catal --- Catar --- Chatar --- Daulat Qaṭar --- Dawlat Qaṭar --- Država Katar --- Dzi︠a︡rz︠h︡ava Katar --- Emirat Katar --- Emiratu de Qatar --- Estado de Catar --- Estato de Qatar --- Estau de Catal --- Ètat du Qatar --- Gwladwriaeth Qatar --- Katala --- Katar --- Kʼatár Bikéyah --- Katari Riik --- Kataro --- Kratos tou Katar --- Medinat Ḳaṭar --- Qatarin valtio --- Qatarko estatua --- Staat Katar --- Staat van Katar --- Stad Katar --- Stad Qatar --- Stát Katar --- State of Qatar --- Steat ny Catar --- Κράτος του Κατάρ --- Κατάρ --- Катар --- Дзяржава Катар --- קטאר --- מדינת קטאר --- دولة قطر --- قطر --- Federation of Arab Emirates --- UAE (United Arab Emirates) --- Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah --- إمارات العربية المتحدة --- Ittiḥād al-Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah --- اتحاد الإمارات العربية --- Ittiḥād Imārāt al-Khalīj al-ʻArabī --- اتحاد إمارات الخليج العربي --- Fédération des Emirats unis --- Union des Emirats arabes --- U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates) --- Emirats arabes unis --- Vereinigte Arabische Emirate --- Arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraattien liitto --- Yhdistyneet arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraatit --- Arabiemiirikuntien liitto --- Emiraatit --- Förenade Arabemiraten --- Arabemiraten --- アラブ首長国連邦 --- Arabu Shuchōkoku Renpō --- Trucial States --- Economic conditions. --- E-books


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The GCC in the global economy
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ISBN: 3940924067 9783940924063 9783940924018 3940924016 Year: 2012 Publisher: [Berlin] : Gerlach Press,

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Gulf Cooperation Council. --- Gulf Co-operation Council --- Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf --- States of Gulf Co-operation Council --- Golf-Rat --- GCC --- G.C.C. --- Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī --- Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī al-ʻArabī --- GKR --- Kooperationsrat Arabischer Staaten am Golf --- Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf --- Duwal Majlis al-Khalīj --- Gŏlpʻŭ Hyŏmnyŏk Wiwŏnhoe --- Kŏlpʻŭ Hyŏmnyŏk Wiwŏnhoe --- Majlis al-Taʻāwun li-Duwal al-Khalīj al-ʻArabīyah --- Golfkooperationsrat --- AGCC --- A.G.C.C. --- Duwal Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī --- Sovet sotrudnichestva arabskikh gosudarstv Persidskogo zaliva --- SSAGPZ --- Arab Gulf Cooperation Council --- مجلس التعاون الخليجي --- مجلس التعاون لدول الخليج العربية --- Shūrā-yi Hamkārī-i Khalīj-i Fārs --- شوراى همکارى خليج فارس --- Persian Gulf Cooperation Council --- PGCC --- Conseil de coopération du Golfe --- Gulf Cooperative Council --- Consiglio di cooperazione del Golfo --- Ccg --- United Arab Emirates --- Saudi Arabia --- Federation of Arab Emirates --- UAE (United Arab Emirates) --- Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah --- إمارات العربية المتحدة --- Ittiḥād al-Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah --- اتحاد الإمارات العربية --- Ittiḥād Imārāt al-Khalīj al-ʻArabī --- اتحاد إمارات الخليج العربي --- Fédération des Emirats unis --- Union des Emirats arabes --- U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates) --- Emirats arabes unis --- Vereinigte Arabische Emirate --- Arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraattien liitto --- Yhdistyneet arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraatit --- Arabiemiirikuntien liitto --- Emiraatit --- Förenade Arabemiraten --- Arabemiraten --- アラブ首長国連邦 --- Arabu Shuchōkoku Renpō --- Trucial States --- Economic conditions. --- Qatar --- Oman --- Sultanate of Oman --- ʻUmān (Sultanate) --- Salṭanat ʻUmān --- Muscat --- Mascate --- عمان --- سلطنة عُمان --- オマーン --- オーマン --- Muscat and Oman --- Catal --- Catar --- Chatar --- Daulat Qaṭar --- Dawlat Qaṭar --- Država Katar --- Dzi︠a︡rz︠h︡ava Katar --- Emirat Katar --- Emiratu de Qatar --- Estado de Catar --- Estato de Qatar --- Estau de Catal --- Ètat du Qatar --- Gwladwriaeth Qatar --- Katala --- Katar --- Kʼatár Bikéyah --- Katari Riik --- Kataro --- Kratos tou Katar --- Medinat Ḳaṭar --- Qatarin valtio --- Qatarko estatua --- Staat Katar --- Staat van Katar --- Stad Katar --- Stad Qatar --- Stát Katar --- State of Qatar --- Steat ny Catar --- Κράτος του Κατάρ --- Κατάρ --- Катар --- Дзяржава Катар --- קטאר --- מדינת קטאר --- دولة قطر --- قطر --- E-books

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