UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

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Dawlat al-Imārāt al-'arabīah al-mutahidah. Al-kitāb al-sanawī. First edition of this well-illustrated pamphlet summarizing the most important achievements of the UAE government in the year 1977. We have traced no institutional copies outside the UAE, where only one appears to be recorded.The sections address issues ranging from the question of Palestine, Cyprus, and the Comoro Islands to the UAE's opposition to South Africa's apartheid, international economy, new projects, the oil economy, the armed forces, the development of transport and communications, archaeological discoveries in al-Ain, and the "social renaissance" of women. The illustrations include photographic images of oil wells and refineries, historical heritage, numerous visits and meetings by Sheikh Zayed, agricultural landscapes, and Abu Dhabi bus station and roads.

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