Dubai, home of the extravagant, also has the world's only 7-star hotel, the Burj Al Arab.
Panama City's Trump Ocean Club, which is currently being built, has a similar sail shape to Dubai's Burj Al Arab tower.
Like the Burj Al Arab and Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Burj Qatar is a stunning piece of architecture.
We deployed from HMS Cornwall in two Rigid Inflatable Boats and patrolled into an area south of the Shatt Al Arab waterway.
The German navy frigate Karlsruhe responded to an emergency call from the Wabi Al Arab Thursday morning, sending helicopters to the stricken vessel.
If you ever travel to Dubai, be sure to visit the Burj Al Arab, which makes Las Vegas' most opulent palaces seem like flophouses.
That is a point not lost on older commentators like Jamal Khashoggi, the editor-in-chief of the new Al Arab News Channel in Saudi Arabia.
Set in the impressive shadow of the seven star Burj al Arab hotel, the delegates will be taking in a variety of seminars, exhibitions, and the opportunity to network.
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The bill comes in at around 100 dirhams for two, and there is something priceless about sitting shack-side, fish in messy hands, looking out over the neighbouring seven-star Burj Al Arab hotel.
Global landmarks that are going green on 17 March include Niagara Falls, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Burj al Arab in Dubai, Table Mountain in South Africa, New York's Empire State Building and Berlin's TV Tower.
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"Due to the rapid growth of tourists from China, we needed to ensure the high level of customer satisfaction and have a strategy, " says Izabela Hamilton, a spokesperson at the Burj Al Arab Hotel, which employs 200 butlers -- none of them British.
Jumana Ghunaimat, researcher and journalist of Al Arab Al Yawm newspaper Mr. Walid Husni, General Manager of Jordan News Agency PETRA Mr. Feisal Al Shboul, lawyer Dr. Sakher Al Khasawneh, former Ambassador to Russia Mr. Ahmed Mubaideen, and Lebanese journalist and lecturer at JMI Dr. Jean Karam.
Col Gaddafi's son Saif al-Arab is reported to have died at his villa in the Bab al-Aziziya compound.
However, Bahrain will host the Saudi-financed Al-Arab satellite news TV channel, expected to launch in 2013.
In 1980, he sensed that Iran was weak and attacked across the Shatt al-Arab waterway.
Al-Arab, the Homs resident, said military planes were over his besieged city Wednesday.
Tusker of Kenya, who are the defending champions, kick-off their campaign on Wednesday with a game against Hay-al-Arab of Sudan.
In 2004, eight British servicemen were held in Iran after being seized in the Shatt al-Arab waterway, where they were training the Iraqi river patrol service.
Iraqis complain that, were it not for sanctions, foreign ships would be overflowing from cramped Umm Qasr to the port of Basra, 80 kilometres up the Shatt al-Arab waterway from the Gulf.
Al Sadu, traditional weaving skills in the United Arab Emirates: Al Sadu is a traditional form of weaving practised by Bedouin women in rural communities of the United Arab Emirates to produce soft furnishings and decorative accessories for camels and horses.
He established Al Jazeera the Arab world's ubiquitous television network, and began programmes to upgrade Qatar's educational, healthcare and infrastructure facilities funded by massive increases in hydrocarbon production.
However, Mr. Morsi is likely to receive a boost of support from natural-gas powerhouse Qatar, which has hosted exiled Muslim Brotherhood leaders for years and given the group a powerful platform on its government-financed al-Jazeera Arab news network.
Imad al-Din Adib in the pan-Arab Saudi-owned Al-Sharq al-Awsat agrees that the killing of the US ambassador and three of his aides "is a humanitarian and political catastrophe" with implications for "Washington's ties with the region as a whole".
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The source of this disturbing headline was none other than former vice president and veteran intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, quoted in the London pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat.
Mr Hashemi had told the Pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat during his stay in Qatar that he would go next to Saudi Arabia on his tour of "friendly states".
Arafat was angered by a deal between Israel and a group of renegade Jewish settlers who last week set up housekeeping in the predominately Arab Ras al-Amoud neighborhood of east Jerusalem in defiance of the Israeli government.
Yesterday, Mubarak spoke out for the first time since being ousted from the Egyptian presidency in February, telling pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Arabiya that he welcomed a probe into his finances and denying that he had any assets at all outside Egypt.
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During the five-day meeting, which was chaired by Awadh Ali Saleh Al Musabi (United Arab Emirates), the Committee launched the List of Intangible Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, on which it inscribed 12 elements proposed by eight countries (Belarus, China, France, Kenya, Latvia, Mali, Mongolia and Viet Nam).
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