YOUR GATEWAY TO DUBAI LIFEHH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum — Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai. His vision, decrees and announcements, explained for the people who live and work in Dubai.
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Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE · Ruler of Dubai since 4 January 2006
Born on 15 July 1949 in Al Shindagha, he became Head of Dubai Police at nineteen and, in the federation year of 1971, the UAE's first Minister of Defence. He is the builder of modern Dubai: Emirates, launched in 1985, the Palm Jumeirah, DIFC, the Dubai Metro and the Burj Khalifa all rose under his leadership. He is the author of "My Vision", and his motto runs through everything in this library: "In the race of excellence... there is no finish line."
The profile, the capstone — his vision in his own words — and the three stories that built the modern city: Emirates, the Palm and the tallest tower on Earth.
Newest first — the life, the projects and the vision, from Shindagha to D33.
Here is a small miracle of daily life in Dubai that residents rarely notice: government services behave as if they are afraid of losing you to a competitor.
Stand anywhere in Dubai and you are looking at the work of one lifetime. HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum entered public service in 1968 and has shaped
The United Arab Emirates was founded in 1971. It turns one hundred in 2071 - and HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who was there at the founding as its
Ask anyone who has worked in Dubai's government about its most famous characteristic and the answer arrives quickly: the deadline is real. Projects in HH Sheikh
Every other pillar of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum's Dubai rests on this one: learning. The free zones import companies, but education manufactures
In 1833, a branch of the Bani Yas tribe settled at the mouth of Dubai Creek and founded a ruling house. Nearly two centuries later, that house - the Al Maktoum
Close your eyes and erase the skyline. What remains is the Dubai that HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum was born into in 1949: a creek town of perhaps a
Business books by rulers are rare. Rulers whose books repay study by actual executives are rarer. HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum's "My Vision
Cities usually treat tourists as a bonus. HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum treated them as a pillar - one of the load-bearing columns of Dubai's
When Dubai has something enormous to announce - an economic agenda, a new strategy, a national initiative - the news increasingly arrives the same way: a post
Every architect of Dubai's rise stands in a shadow: that of Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Ruler from 1958 to 1990, the father who dredged the Creek, built
Long before opinion polls and feedback apps, the Gulf had a technology for listening: the majlis - the open council where any man could enter, sit, speak and be
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Sheikh Mohammed became Ruler of Dubai on 4 January 2006, on the death of his brother Sheikh Maktoum, and Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE in February 2006. He had been Crown Prince of Dubai since 1995 — and his public service began far earlier: Head of Dubai Police from 1968 and, in the federation year of 1971, the UAE's first Minister of Defence. The profile that opens this library tells the full story.
The modern city itself. Emirates rose in 1985 from two leased planes; Jebel Ali's free zone grew into one of the world's largest; Dubai Internet City and DIFC brought technology and finance; the Palm Jumeirah redrew the coastline; the Dubai Metro opened in 2009; and the Burj Khalifa — 828 metres, the world's tallest building — opened on 4 January 2010. The Museum of the Future, opened in 2022, carries his words in calligraphy across its facade.
His motto, quoted in full, is: "In the race of excellence... there is no finish line." It is the idea at the heart of his 2006 book "My Vision: Challenges in the Race for Excellence": excellence is not a destination a city reaches and rests at, but a race that is never finished — the standard behind the vision he sets out in his own words elsewhere in this library.
"My Vision: Challenges in the Race for Excellence" is Sheikh Mohammed's 2006 book — his own account of how he leads and how Dubai was built: a government run to serve people the way the private sector serves customers, departments measured in public, and development treated as a race for excellence with no finish line. The capstone of this library gathers his vision in his own words.
The Dubai Economic Agenda — D33 — launched in January 2023, is Sheikh Mohammed's plan to double the size of Dubai's economy over the decade that follows. It sits alongside the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan he launched in 2021, which maps how the city itself will grow. His wider forward plans are gathered under Dubai Leadership.
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