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Abu Dhabi s first hospital continues to build on a rich six-decade legacy
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60 years later: The story of the UAE s oldest working hospital | Year Of The 50th – Gulf News
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Kanad Hospital: The story of the Al Ain hospital where Sheikh Mohamed was born
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New book Showpiece City tells the story of Dubai s beginnings through architecture
Starting in the early 20th century, Todd Reisz highlights the successes and failures that shaped the foundations of the emirate
Dubai residents on an abra headed across Dubai Creek, with the diwan on the opposite side in Bur Dubai. Courtesy Richard Turpin, John R. Harris Library.
The National Bank of Dubai headquarters in Deira, early 1970s. Courtesy John R. Harris Library and Henk Snoek / RIBA Collections.
Aerial view of Rashid Hospital, sometimes referred to as Health City. The hospital was one of Dubai’s first drive-to destinations. Courtesy John R. Harris Library.
LONDON: During the night of April 8, 1961, 11-year-old Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the future ruler of Dubai, was awoken by the sound of a ferocious storm battering the royal palace.
As a child, he had heard the elders of his grandfather’s generation recall phenomenal storms of such savagery that they likened them to the Day of Judgement.
But, as Sheikh Mohammed wrote in his autobiography “My Story” in 2019, “I didn’t pay much heed to their prophetic, doom-laden words.”
That is until that April night in 1961 when “I found my bed in the middle of a full-blown storm, with windows slamming in the gale-force winds that were blowing through our family home … It seemed like the world was ending all around me, what some other cultures call the end of days.”