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A Photo Series Of Dubai’s Satwa From The 70s Is Making People Extremely Nostalgic
It is hardly brand new information that Dubai has come a LONG way in the past few decades.
And nothing makes this more evident than looking back at pictures from just years ago
An Emirati Twitter user shared a picture of Dubai from a couple of years ago and it has gotten a lot of people reflecting on how far the city has come and the heritage it comes from.
The picture, it turns out, is of Satwa from 1976.
https://twitter.com/NAlShaikh/status/1301776578163216384
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https://twitter.com/Nabtaker_ae/status/1301781407958740993
The photo is from a series by Anita van der Krol – who was one of the first expatriate residents of Jebel Ali Village in the late 1970s. She was accompanying her engineer husband to the UAE for work.
Take a look at the entire series here.
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