Pearls of the Persian Gulf: Dubai

Kamran Shirdel • 39m

دبی مروارید خلیج فارس Directed by Kamran Shirdel • 1975 • Iran In the early 1970s, Shirdel travelled around the Gulf making documentaries about the new states emerging there. In the just-formed Emirates, he befriended Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and the film features footage of the young sheikh piloting a helicopter over the desert.