Summary of the Dubai Reading
Kazim (2010) wrote a historical article about Dubai, tracing the economic steps of this important city from the early XIX to the beginning of the XXI century.
Dubai in the Early Colonial Period (1820-1945)
Kazim reports that the British took over the area known as the Trucial Emirates (the current United Arab Emirates, UAE) with the destruction of the Al-Qawasin, an Arab mercantile group, in the 1820s (Kazim, 2010, pg. 75). The British leveled the existing key mercantile cities, took over the ports and established their colonialism, which contained the trade only within the British Empire. This was a harsh blow to a region which traded ...
