And the 40-storey Al Tayer tower in Sharjah also suffered a similar fate in April 2012.
While the UAE is relatively liberal among Gulf nations, Sharjah is its most conservative emirate.
This is the first time the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize rewards a personality from Latin America.
Malik first altered his bowling after being reported during a triangular tournament in Sharjah in 2002.
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He is not the only player to have been approached in Sharjah to fix matches for cash.
It's as if the Ashes were to be played for in Belgium, or, for that matter, Sharjah.
This year, the Indian Sports Ministry banned all visits to non-regular venues such as Sharjah, Toronto and Singapore.
Yet, in Sharjah and throughout the region, artists and galleries must still contend with a degree of social conservatism.
Sharjah is the only emirate in the UAE that stretches along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman.
Al-Owais, Director-general of the Department of Culture and Information of the Government of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), and H.
The UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture is a major step in this effort.
Sharjah's government funds the biennale, as well as the Emirate's well-preserved heritage areas, its authentic bazaars and its 16 museums.
Before then, Pakistan will be taking part in the triangular Sharjah Cup competition and a home series against New Zealand.
The Arab British Centre (UK) and the Algerian academic and essayist Mustafa Cherif have won the 2013 UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture.
In the next four months Pakistan play six tests and more than 20 one-day internationals in Sharjah, West Indies and Sri Lanka.
Tours of the east coast and other areas of the UAE can be booked in Sharjah through companies such as Gulf Ventures.
Mohammed Salem al-Zumer was reportedly detained by state security officers in the emirate of Sharjah on Wednesday and taken to an unknown destination.
Alukkas opened his second store in Sharjah in 1992, despite stiff resistance from his brothers, who turned nervous after the first Gulf war.
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The UK-based Emirates Centre for Human Rights (ECHR) said Mr Zumer was driving a car in Sharjah when it was stopped by security personnel.
He will lead the side during the intensity of the next four months when they will make tours of Sharjah, West Indies and Sri Lanka.
One such is the American University of Sharjah, founded in 1997.
The man who owns and runs Sharjah cricket is Sheikh Bukhatir.
Haidar Talib, an Emirati travelled the 141km from Masdar City to Al Thiqa Club for Handicapped in Sharjah in 14 hours, 28 seconds on a solar-powered wheelchair.
Sharjah hosted what should have been Pakistan's last home series, against West Indies, and the Pakistan team were in Tangiers for Morocco's debut on the international scene.
We owe this to the generosity and ambition of His Highness Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed al-Qasimi, Governor of the Emirate of Sharjah and founder of the Prize.
Afridi was in defiant mood following his 52 runs in the Sharjah Cup final win against South Africa last week, playing some exquisite strokes on the off-side.
Fears of a "towering inferno" disaster in the Gulf are growing after fires left residential buildings heavily damaged in the United Arab Emirates cities of Sharjah and Dubai.
"It looks like it is a very meaningful, deliberate attempt on the part of the government here to make Sharjah the cultural hub of the region, " Bilal says.
The signs are encouraging, with victory in the four-nation Sharjah Cup, followed by a place in the final of a Tri-Series in Sri Lanka, where they lost to New Zealand.
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