Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf, and is the country’s centre of political and economic activities as well as a commercial and cultural hub. Abu Dhabi possesses 90 percent of the UAE’s approximately 100 billion barrels of oil reserves and 60 percent of its significant gas reserves. Because of the prestige of its ruling family, and especially the magnitude of its oil and gas revenues, Abu Dhabi dominates the UAE politically and economically. Amazingly, modern international airports, universities, hospitals, museums, towering hotels and office buildings, and a modern communications and transportation infrastructure are now a part of the landscape where only fifty years earlier there were only simple palm-frond huts and dusty paths.
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