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On the southern bank of Dubai Creek in the historic Bur Dubai neighbourhood about two miles south-east of the modern downtown Dubai business district, the Al Fahidi Historical District (also known as Al Bastakiya) is the largest and best-preserved historic neighbourhood in the United Arab Emirates and one of the most important surviving examples of pre-oil Gulf Arab urban architecture. The 30-acre historic quarter preserves approximately 60 individual late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-...