The United Arab Emirates was once a small federation of fishermen, pearl divers, and camel herders on the Arabian Peninsula with no formal government and no paved roads — and 60 years later, it hosts the tallest building on earth, one of the world’s large

In the late 1950s, when the American oil reporter Wanda Jablonski travelled to Abu Dhabi, the town had no hotel, no paved roads and no electricity, and dinner at the one expatriate household was tinned meat or, as a treat, dugong stew. She had come because a British and French consortium was gambling that there […] The post The United Arab Emirates was once a small federation of fishermen, pearl divers, and camel herders on the Arabian Peninsula with no formal government and no paved roads — and 60 years later, it hosts the tallest building on earth, one of the world’s largest airlines, and a per-capita GDP higher than Japan appeared first on Space Daily .

The United Arab Emirates was once a small federation of fishermen, pearl divers, and camel herders on the Arabian Peninsula with no formal government and no paved roads — and 60 years later, it hosts the tallest building on earth, one of the world’s large

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