The future ruler of Dubai
[Photo album - Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum].
Folio (285 x 340 mm). 10 ff. 19 colour photographs pasted down onto each leaf, each 125 x 173 mm. Contemporary spiral-bound album, cloth boards.
$10,607.00
A photograph album of Dubai's HH Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (b. 1949) on a state visit to Iraq just four years after the formation of the United Arab Emirates, when the Union was still in the process of gaining its footing on the international political stage. Here, the future ruler of Dubai meets with the Iraqi undersecretary of the Ministry of Trade, Hikmet al-Azawi (1933-2012), who would go on to serve as Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq and as Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister.
Snapshots show the two men in conversation, enjoying refreshments together, and visiting the Iraq Trade Ministry. Hikmet looks on as a young Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid cuts ceremonial tape, tours an Iraqi commerce exhibition (a plaque for the Iraqi Bolts Company can be seen in the background), and meets with Hikmet and fellow politicians from Iraq and the UAE. The photographs are informal, and show HH Mohammed bin Rashid in action as a political player early on in his career: at the time he was Dubai's first Minister of Defense, working to create international ties for Dubai and the UAE.
Evidence of removed photograph on first leaf; photos themselves in good condition, with only some minor fading.
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