Independent Publishers Group - UAE - Culture Smart!

Closed, opens Wed 11amIndependent shop in GreenwoodDirections

Available from Yoshi when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Full of people who aim to combine the ancient and the modern, the UAE is an extremely rewarding place to visit. Set on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Gulf, the country was once a poor desert land, a confederation of tribal sheikhdoms on the periphery of the Arab world, subsisting on pearl diving and fishing. It was a British protectorate until independence in 1971, after which seven of the sheikhdoms united to form a federation, the UAE. The discovery of oil in the 1950s transformed the c