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          Timeframe: Landmark golf club that put Dubai on world stage

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          The front page of Dawn on April 8, 1968, features a story on the sinking of the dhow and drowning of around 200 pilgrims off Dubai coast. Photo: Dawn

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          Simone Baltaxe Martayan's The Workers, on show at Mathaf. Photo: Mathaf and Qatar Museums

          Beirut and the Golden Sixties exhibition shines in Doha

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          WeekendJune 16, 2023
          Model of the Zayed National Museum, which was designed by British firm Foster and Partners. Photo: Pawan Singh / The National

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          Timeframe: June - when UAE pearl divers took the plunge

          WeekendJune 09, 2023
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          How climate change shaped the past, by historian Peter Frankopan

          WeekendJune 02, 2023
          The pair of ornamental pillars, known as cippi, will be on display to the public at Louvre Abu Dhabi until June 2024. Photo: Louvre Abu Dhabi

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          USMay 27, 2023
          The Omani civilization: history and development exhibition will run until June 7 at the Sharjah Archaeology Museum. Pictured: A Cuneiform tablet (replica) 2100-2000 BC. All photos: Leslie Pableo / The National

          125,000 years of Omani history at the Sharjah Archaeology Museum

          Art & DesignMay 24, 2023
          Iraq's embassy in Washington received two looted artefacts dating back to the fourth millennium BC. Photo: Iraq Ministry of Foreign Affairs

          US hands back two rare looted Iraqi sculptures

          MENAMay 24, 2023
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