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65 Ibid.
66 Pepe Escobar, “Dubai Lives the Post-Oil Arab Dream,” Asia Times
June 7, 2006, www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/
HF07Ak01.html.
67 “Swiss Lead the GCC Banking Boom,” November 8, 2004,
www.ameinfo.com/48503.html.

CHAPTER 4
1 Quoted by Prince Amr bin Mohammad Al Faisal, PBS Frontline,
2003.
2 Ras al-Khaimah did not join until 1972. Had the UAE included Qatar
and Bahrain, as originally envisioned, the GCC landscape might
have been quite different today.
3 “Emirati” denotes UAE nationals.
4 Library of Congress, “A Country Study: United Arab Emirates,”
1993.
5 BP, Statistical Review of World Energy 2006.
6 Sudip Roy, “Adia Unveils Its secrets,” Euromoney, April 1, 2006.
7 www.sheikhmohammed.co.ae/english/dubai/
dubai_almaktoum.asp (last accessed May 16, 2007).
8 www.ameinfo.com/93650.html, AME Info, August 2006.
9 www.rakftz.com/en/index.php, Ras al-Khaimah FTZ Web site, 2007.
10 Ownership restrictions and deregulation are discussed in much
greater detail in a later chapter.
11 “Doing Business in the UAE: Free Zones,” UAE Federal
Government e-Portal, 2007.
12 RAK FTZ Web site, March 2007, www.rakftz.com/en/
news_details.php?id=46.
13 IMF, 2007 estimates, www.imf.org/external/country/SAU/
index.htm.
14 Ibid.
15 BP, Statistical Review of World Energy 2006.
16 Library of Congress, “A Country Study: Saudi Arabia,” 1993.
17 CIA World Factbook, 2006.
18 “Questions About the World’s Largest Gas Field,” The Oil Drum
Online, June 9, 2006.
19 AME Info, 2006.