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View of 'arish huts next ... Frame:noneView of 'arish huts next to Al Fahidi fort in the Bastakiya quarter of old Dubai. In the foreground 'arish huts made of palm fronds sit in fenced enclosures in an expanse of bare flat sand. Behind the houses sits Al Fahidi fort, a square stone and coral fort that has a high round watchtower topped with a flagpole on its near corner. A pair of square two storey buildings sit inside the fort. The walls of the rightmost tower are incomplete, and a ruined

spear fishing on Umm al Abid

The nearest boom flies three sails

Mabkhaut bin Arbain

with a boy standing in the foreground

Group portrait of boys

He also wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) tied over his head

Around it plants and small vegetation grow on the sandy ground

they contain Faleh bin Majid's men

a large double masted dhow (sailboat) built in Kuwait

View of the creek at Dubai

View of several houses with wind-towers

View of a two dhows (sailboats) beached on the Corniche in the town of Abu Dhabi