Animals, birds, plants, flowers and trees of Dubai
Flowers, plants and trees The sandy desert surrounding Dubai is host to wild grasses and date palm trees. In the sabkha plains to the east of Dubai desert hyacinths grow, and acacia and ghaf trees grow in the flat plains near the Western Al Hajar Mountains. Several indigenous trees such as the date palm and [...]
A brief history of Dubai’s economy up to 1979
Dubai’s close proximity to India made it an important trading location and it was already known in Europe from the sixteenth century for its pearling industry, but it was in the nineteenth century when the emir lowered trade taxes to lure foreign traders from neighbouring states that Dubai really began to grow in prominence. The [...]
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