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Rare and old photos of Abu Dhabi from the collection of Dr Abdul Rahman Makhlouf who was a close friend of Sheikh Zayed and had planned Abu Dhabi. Victor Besa / The Nationa.
Rare and old photos of Abu Dhabi from the collection of Dr Abdul Rahman Makhlouf who was a close friend of Sheikh Zayed and had planned Abu Dhabi. Victor Besa / The Nationa.
The UAE's rise rests on two critical decisions Sheikh Zayed made in 1971
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Husain Haqqani
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Husain Haqqani, a former Pakistan ambassador to the US, is diplomat-in-residence at the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi and a senior fellow at the Washington-based Hudson Institute
02 December, 2023