Abstract
Dubai is today known as one of the most thriving commercial centres of the world. Well before offshore oil was struck, in 1966, it was a bustling city-state whose citizens were amongst the most sophisticated and enterprising businessmen of the Arab world. In making their imprint on the world of trade and commerce, they did not wait for the discovery of petroleum, but proceeded to make full use of the fact that Dubai had a fine natural harbour to serve as the basis of communication with the outside world. ‘Indeed, if any state in the Middle East has lifted itself up into economic prosperity by its own boot straps, it is Dubai.’1
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K. G. Fenelon, The United Arab Emirates, (London, 1973) p. 61.
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© 1978 Rosemarie Said Zahlan
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Zahlan, R.S. (1978). The Reform Movement of Dubai: The Beginnings of Democracy. In: The Origins of the United Arab Emirates. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03949-4_10
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