“Look how far this city has come”: What a Dubai-born daughter wishes she could tell her late father

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Rasha Salim says the emirate her father described, when he arrived in the 1970s, may seem like a different city, but the spirit of Dubai hasn't changed ...

Rasha Salim says the emirate her father described, when he arrived in the 1970s, may seem like a different city, but the spirit of Dubai hasn’t changed

Her father, Salim Ayoub, arrived from Mumbai, India, in 1977, in a city that looked very different from what it is today. Picture credit: Supplied

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