Sunday, March 8, 2009

Our father's ..baba zayed


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H.H. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan AlNahyan was born in 1918. He was the ruler of abu dhabi since 1966.He was the youngest of the four sons of Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed.Using skilful negotiation, he brought together seven separate emirates, formally founding the United Arab Emirates on 2 December 1972. This is universally acknowledged as Sheikh Zayed's most significant achievement. In the 1970s the great oil boom years brought huge prosperity to the UAE and Sheikh Zayed invested the money in the infrastructure of the nation with a further construction boom follow on from the first boom in the late 1960s.Sheikh Zayed built housing facilities, schools, and hospitals for his people. He construct an airport, a sea port, roads and a bridge to link Abu Dhabi to the mainland. He transformed Abu Dhabi into a green emirate with irrigation and the planting of hundreds of thousands of trees.
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1 comment:

  1. Man, his excellency did so much! You were lucky to have him.

    Your writing is fine here. My only thing would be to quote any phrase of words 3 words or longer that you got from a source. Are all these your words? Paraphrases? Or do you need to " " some of them?

    Anyway, good job.

    10/10

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