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Proud Dubai resident turns home into museum preserving UAE's rich history

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“Proud Dubai resident turns home into museum preserving UAE's rich history”

Old passports, faded photographs, travel permits and vintage televisions fill the rooms of Shaukat Ali Rana's Dubai home, offering a glimpse of life in the UAE before the country's rapid transformation. When Shaukat Rana arrived in what is now the UAE as a young boy in 1968, Dubai was very different. Roads were scarce, travel between emirates required permits and television was limited to a handful of channels. Mr Rana joined his father, Rafi, in the Trucial States after his father took up an…

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