HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1918-2004)

[miss b]

you are right when you say that sheikh mohammed bin zayed is the most powerful among his brothers. although sheikh khalifa has the tribal loyalities, mohammed controls the military and the oil revenues. he is also responsible for the direction in which abu dhdabi is currently going. if you ask anyone on the street in the uae, they will confirm that mohammed has more power in the uae than khalifa.

 

[Schwalker]

you are right when you say that sheikh mohammed bin zayed is the most powerful among his brothers. although sheikh khalifa has the tribal loyalities, mohammed controls the military and the oil revenues. he is also responsible for the direction in which abu dhdabi is currently going. if you ask anyone on the street in the uae, they will confirm that mohammed has more power in the uae than khalifa.

I never understood who Al-Ain and Sheik Tahnoun supported really, they are linked to Khalifa and Mohammed but also prides themselves in being the ancient Al-Nahyan stronghold and tend to mind their own affairs in a more laidback fashion.

 

[dazzling]

UAE's Sheikh Zayed on Newsweek's influential leaders who radically remake their countries

The UAE Founding Father, Late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan is on New York-based Newsweek's list of the world's 11 world influential leaders who radically transformed their countries in a relatively short span in the post-World War II era... - Article

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Sheikh Zayed is credited with creating the blueprint for the United Arab Emirates as a modern, relatively tolerant regional economic powerhouse, according to Newsweek. He was President of the UAE at its inception and was quick to launch the development of all the emirates and directed oil revenues into healthcare, education and the national infrastructure.

Sheikh Zayed liberalized policies on women's rights and religious tolerance, which the magazine said had improved on other Gulf countries and which had laid the groundwork for the UAE's rise as an international business center.

 

[Imanmajed]

Emiratis recall Shaikh Zayed’s legacy

Today the UAE marks the 10th death anniversary of Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, founder of the UAE (according to Islamic calender, but he died 2nd November 2004). The Federal Cabinet of UAE decided to mark the 19th day of the month of Ramadan each year as the anniversary of the death of UAE’s founding father, Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, as Zayed Humanitarian Work Day.

Shaikh Zayed was a man who gave to his country, and the world, without expecting anything in return and who translated every good thing he knew into action. His achievements will remain in the annals of history and the hearts of Emiratis for centuries to come. He was wise and humane and he will be remembered for his generosity, justice and wisdom.

GulfNews

Shaikh Zayed’s humanitarian work around the world

The sweep of Shaikh Zayed’s humanitarianism is vast and it has touched millions of lives. From launching housing projects for the needy to providing food and medicine for people suffering from poverty regardless of race, sex, language or religion, Zayed’s inclusiveness was all-encompassing.

How nations around the globe have benefited from Zayed’s legacy

Shaikh Zayed's legacy from the perspective of an expat worker ...

GulfNews

 

[Imanmajed]

Sharing memories of Sheikh Zayed on the anniversary of his death

TheNational

 

[Imanmajed]

50th anniversary of Sheikh Zayed’s accession to Ruler of AD

On August 6, 1966: he was less than five years away from bringing together the emirates as a country, on December 2, 1971, at which point his nation-building took on a whole new momentum. Expanding his community-building work as the Ruler’s Representative of the Eastern Region, Sheikh Zayed laid the building blocks of the people’s future well-being: schools and hospitals, roads and ports, land plots and oil refineries, even while extending the prosperity farther from home, through his many humanitarian projects abroad.