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Dubai’s unfathomably high skyscrapers, reaching into the clouds, are matched only in size by its vast, sprawling shopping malls and its residents’ bulging bank balances.The occasion provides an opportunity to wax nostalgic as we look back at the Middle East in a different time, both in aeronautics and geopolitics. Here, a selection of archival photographs of the UAE capital’s first magnificent airport, which opened officially in 1960.
Dubai’s waterways: Dhows pictured on the city’s creek (above) was once the centre of Dubai’s pearl trade and it divides it into two sections