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United Arab Emirates: Profile, Briefings, Issues

The story on the United Arab Emirates, one of the Gulf's wealthiest states--a federation of seven autonomous emirates sitting on 10 percent of the world's oil.
What Is the Dubai Metro System?
Facts and figures on the Dubai Metro subway system, the Middle East's and the world's longest unmanned mass-transit system.
The United Arab Emirates' Ban of Israeli Shahar Peer: Tennis and Bigotry
The United Arab Emirates, Sports and Anti-Semitism: The case of Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer and the UAE's visa denial.
When the United Arab Emirates Won Independence From Britain
The United Arab Emirates won independence from Britain in December 1971. Here's a brief history of the founding of the UAE, formekly known as the Trucial States.
The United Arab Emirates at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Summer Games
Your Guide to the 2008 Beijing Olympics for United Arab Emirates: United Arab Emirates’s Olympic history and country profile, and United Arab Emirates’s athletes at the 2008 Olympics by name and by sport, or game.
United Arab Emirates: Country Profile
The United Arab Emirates is among the Persian Gulf's wealthiest, most stable states. Here's the story on its oil-rich but diversifying economy, its few political and religious freedoms. Its military, demographics and history are also profiled.

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