Mohammed bin Rashed Shares Dubai's Card Years
The article focused on the story of the "Card Years" in Dubai, a period during which the city experienced days of poverty, hunger, and disease in the early decades of its founding. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed Al Maktoum recounts how the people of Dubai endured these harsh conditions, marked by water and food shortages, widespread illnesses, and the necessity of relying on food ration cards to distribute limited resources. Despite this hardship, Dubai invested in developing its infrastructure and expanding its ports, even facing challenges such as the decline of the pearl industry and the impact of the two world wars. These experiences taught the city the importance of economic diversification and not depending on a single resource. Sheikh Mohammed emphasizes that today, Dubai has become a global industrial and tourist city, thanks to those difficulties, which served as lessons in perseverance, learning, and development. He calls on current generations to maintain humility and continuous effort, cautioning against arrogance and complacency.
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