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From Rags to Riches: A Story of Abu Dhabi

"Born in , in Abu Dhabi, the author knew dreadful poverty for years before fabulous oil wealth transformed his country forever. He grew up in the ruler's palace, barefoot like his playmates, now senior figures in the United Arab Emirates." "This is a vivid eye-witness account of the total transformation within only 30 years of a Bedouin society into a country with the world's highest per capita income. He speaks with great frankness about his own life and career and about the role of the British in his country."--BOOK Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

From Rags to Riches: A Story of Abu Dhabi

January 28,

Upon arrival in the United Arab Emirates, especially Dubai and Abu Dhabi, one is overwhelmed by the scale, the opulence, and the sheer newness of almost everything. Dubai is the bustling commercial center, while the capital, Abu Dhabi, is still in full expansion. World famous museums (the Louvre, etc.), universities (the Sorbonne, NYU,..), and hospitals (the Cleveland Clinic among others) have opened branches here or are in the process of doing so. Meanwhile, the native Emirati population has become outnumbered (1 to 5, if I remember correctly) by expatriates from all over the world.
Planning to spend quite some time here this year, I went in search of background information at a local bookstore. There were the usual expat handbooks full of advice for newcomers. But the book I ended up buying, Mohammed Fahim's "From Rags to Riches," (available in 9 languages) promised to answer some of my deeper questions.
Subtitled "A Story of Abu Dhabi," this memoir, first published in , does not purport to be a history book. Instead, the author sets out to narrate the story of his family and how he personally lived through the transform

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Mohammed Al-Fahim's book, From Rags to Riches: A Story of Abu Dhabi, is a deeply moving, well-written account of the remarkable transformation of an impoverished, desert tribal people into a modern, prosperous state. Oil -- the "black gold" of the Gulf -- made this miracle possible in the space of a few decades. But it was also made possible by the courage and vision of strong Abu Dhabi political, business and educational leaders, most notably Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, the longtime ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates.

Al-Fahim's detailed personal account was a revelation to me of a world barely known in the West and gladly left behind by those who had to live in it. Demographic statistics cannot begin to do justice to the reality. Today's visitors to Abu Dhabi with its skyscrapers, beautiful seaside, broad avenues, modern international airport and beautifully landscaped airport highway, will be amazed to read of the conditions of poverty and misery that marked the emirate as recently as The tide, From Rags to Riches, is an accurate description not only

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From Rags to Riches—A Story of Abu Dhabi: Mohammed Al-Fahim
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Review by Lesley O’Dowd

Mohammed Al-Fahim’s biography, From Rags to Riches was first published in By the time he wrote this illuminating story, Al-Fahim was an eminent, highly respected Emirati businessman in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. As he skilfully weaves the personal perspective of his family’s adaptation from primitive living conditions—water carried home in goatskin bags from the well; sleeping on the floor or roof top; never having seen an electric light or running water till he was aged 13—he chronicles the arrival in Abu Dhabi of the first sterilisation plants, telephones, generators, a Dakota landing on the sand, a post office and a brick school. His reverence for the close family friend, Sheik Zayed, emerges clearly, a grateful tribute to the Emirati ruler’s careful and enlightened guidance of his people over fifty years. When the British pulled out of the Trucial States in , Sheik Zayed’s tireless efforts led hostile tribes to agree to federate: the United Arab Emirates came into being three years later.

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