Whereas the latter is a state owned vessel, however (it belongs to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai), the Al Salamah is in private hands, and although she is smaller -- a mere 140 meters (457ft) long and 23.5 meters (77ft) wide -- she remains the largest, and most luxuriously appointed non-state vessel currently cruising the high seas.
No surprise then that Dubai's Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum fared the worst.
Upon its debut, Abramovich's vessel became the largest privately owned yacht in the world, surpassing Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's Dubai.
Godolphin, the stables owned by Dubai ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, has five entrants, including 2012 winner Monterosso, who has struggled of late.
It's granted landing and naval visiting rights to the U.S. The Dubai government, which is to say Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum is pro-western and free-market.
The state-owned Dubai International Financial Center is headed by the prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Employed by the ruler of Dubai's prestigious Godolphin operation-- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum -- trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni has been summoned to attend a disciplinary hearing in central London on Thursday.
The day of races attracts some of the biggest names in the sport and this year the Dubai World Cup features 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, two-time Eclipse Award-winning Royal Delta and defending champion Monterosso, owned by Dubai ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum.
The UNESCO-Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers was awarded to The Rato Bangala Foundation (Nepal), The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Schools Enrichment Centre (South Africa) and to The Banco del Libro (Venezuela).
Dubai's energetic, tax-hating ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, is pushing hard to make the state a regional high-tech center as well, one reason he looked favorably upon the founding five years ago of The American University in Dubai (where yours truly gave the spring commencement address).
Much of the impetus comes from choices made in the 1970s when the late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, father of the current ruler, Sheikh Mohammed, decided that Dubai needed an economy that would outlast its oil supplies.
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