My early life / Sultan bin Muhammad al-Qasimi ; translated from the Arabic by Domenyk Eades ; edited by Ahmed Ali, Brian Pridham and Khaled Hroub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sulṭān ibn Muḥammad al-Qāsimī, Ruler of Shāriqah, 1939-

Standardized Title:

Sard al-dhāt. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sulṭān ibn Muḥammad al-Qāsimī, Ruler of Shāriqah, 1939-.

Sulṭān ibn Muḥammad al-Qāsimī.

Shāriqah (United Arab Emirates : Emirate)--Kings and rulers--Biography.

Shāriqah (United Arab Emirates : Emirate).

Shāriqah (United Arab Emirates : Emirate)--History--20th century.

Shāriqah (United Arab Emirates : Emirate)--History--21st century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 301 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.

Summary:

I left the house carrying a can of petrol and with a box of matches in my pocket. Two of my friends were sitting on the long bench in front of the gate to our house. I told them that I was taking some petrol to my car, which had stopped on the road between Dubai and Sharjah.

One of them said, 'We'll go with you.'

'There are women in the car,' I replied.

The other said, 'Then we'll take you there and you can come back to us after you take your family home.'

'Are you men?' I asked them.

'Yes, of course!' they replied.

'Are you afraid of death?'

'No!' they replied, in surprise.

Then I continued, 'Following the aggression against Egypt, every day we call for victory to Egypt and for defeat and humiliation for the aggressors, but we've done nothing. You can help by either coming with me or just covering up for me.' Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Childhood Days 1

2 Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr al-Qasimi 17

3 Deputy Ruler of Sharjah 45

4 The Development of Education in Sharjah 71

5 Hajj 99

6 The Tripartite Aggression against Egypt 117

7 Events in Sharjah 137

8 A Trip to Iran 153

9 The Ba'arh Party 173

10 The Sharjah Trade School Teacher 187

11 Arab Nationalism Sweeps Sharjah 203

12 University Years: Part 1 233

13 University Years: Part 2 255

14 The Homeland 273.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781408814208

140881420X

OCLC:

682894328