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The Chairman’s Method
Every witness to Dubai's government eventually asks the same question: how does this machine actually run so fast? Part of the answer sits in a chair occupied
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The leadership of Dubai — HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, HH Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and the vision that built the city.
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Sheikh Hamdan’s Dubai Through the Decades: 2006 to Today
Twenty years is long enough for a city to become unrecognisable - and for a young chairman to…
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What Sheikh Hamdan Thinks About Dubai
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The Crown Prince and the Sea
To understand His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, follow the water. The Crown Prince…
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Sheikh Hamdan and Ramadan: A Month of Community and Giving
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Why the World Watches Fazza: The Global Crown Prince
Type his nickname into a search bar anywhere on earth and the results arrive in a dozen languages.…
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The Heir’s Path: How Sheikh Hamdan Prepared to Lead
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Dubai in 2040 Through Sheikh Hamdan’s Eyes
Close your eyes and picture Dubai in 2040: greener districts, a doubled economy matured into its next form,…
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Giving Quietly: Sheikh Hamdan’s Community Heart
The nickname came first, before the titles meant anything to the wider world: Fazza - the one who…
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A New Style of Leadership: Sheikh Hamdan and the Media Age
For most of history, a prince's voice reached his people through ceremony - rare, formal and filtered. His…
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Services Without Queues: Sheikh Hamdan’s War on Red Tape
There is a sound every resident of the old world knows: the shuffle of paper in a government…
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What Sheikh Mohammed Thinks About Dubai
What does HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum actually think about Dubai? Not the Dubai of brochures…
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A Knowledge City: Sheikh Hamdan and Dubai’s Universities
A city's universities are its long-term memory and its futures market in one. Dubai - a trading city…
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Government Excellence: Why Dubai’s Departments Compete
Here is a small miracle of daily life in Dubai that residents rarely notice: government services behave as…
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April 2024: Sheikh Hamdan and the Week the Rain Tested Dubai
Dubai is a city designed to defy weather - which is why April 2024 hit so hard. Record…
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Sheikh Mohammed’s Dubai Through the Decades: 1970s to 2020s
Stand anywhere in Dubai and you are looking at the work of one lifetime. HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin…
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Fazza’s Dubai: The City Through His Favourite Places
Every leader has an official city - the one in the brochures. And every leader has a real…
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The Next 50 Years: Sheikh Mohammed
The United Arab Emirates was founded in 1971. It turns one hundred in 2071 - and HH Sheikh…
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Fitness as Policy: Life After the Fitness Challenge in Dubai
Every November, the Dubai Fitness Challenge ends - and the more interesting story begins. What happens to a…
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Why Dubai Never Sleeps on a Deadline
Ask anyone who has worked in Dubai's government about its most famous characteristic and the answer arrives quickly:…
