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New forces bring change

OverviewAbu Dhabi was a sand-blown coastal village with only two stone buildings and less than 20,000 inhabitants, in 1966 when Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan became ruler of Abu Dhabi - five years before the birth of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of which he is president....more

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