In October 2003, Ilham Aliyev became President of Azerbaijan. After a career as a scholar and historian, businessman and oil executive, his sudden rise to political power caught many by surprise. Yet eight years on, Azerbaijan is on the crest of an economic wave despite the global recession. The newly independent nation is building a robust civil society, democracy has taken root, poverty rates have dropped dramatically and Azerbaijan is winning international plaudits for transparency and good governance. Ilham: Portrait of a President is the first English-language biography of this intriguing statesman.

Ilham: Portrait of a President

Wilson, Graeme

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For the people of this planet

Graeme Howard Wilson

<p>Media Prima [Published Date: 2007]. Hardcover, 360 pp. Updated version, 2007. [From jacket flaps] In 1985, intent on propelling further the economic and social revolution that was transforming his country, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum started an airline. It was an era when airline start-ups were rare, and successes were rarer still. Yet he handed his team a cheque for $10 million and told them to go away and create a carrier for Dubai. Sheikh Mohammed insisted on the highest standards, that this new carrier compete within Dubai's long standing Open Skies policy and that the airline contribute to economic success of the emirate. This, he decreed, should be done using this $10 million contribution and no more. Emirates - as this fledgling carrier would come to be known - could not count on any further finance. The company would have to succeed on its own. Today, Chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum and his team preside over a fleet that carried some 17 million passengers last year, has billions in aircraft on order and, by 2012, will have hundreds of aircraft in service. . . . Emirates: The airline of the future portrays a remarkable story of corporate growth and success. Illustrated with over 300 photographs and some 80,000 words, anecdotal testimonial from those who have been part of this remarkable story has created one of the most vivid and colourful civil aviation books ever published.</p>

Emirates: The Airline of the Future

Graeme Wilson

Rashid's Legacy is the story of Dubai. Highlighting the arrival of the Maktoum family in the sheikhdom over 170 years ago, the book profiles the origins of the emirate from the beginning of its recorded history and through the leadership of a succession of family members. The book goes on to map an extraordinary story - that of the late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, renowned as being the Father of Dubai.
Sheikh Rashid passed away in 1990. He left behind a thriving and prosperous Dubai which boasted a plethora of infrastructural, industrial and economic features that would carry his emirate into the 21st Century.
Unarguably, however, Sheikh Rashid's greatest triumph was to bequeath to Dubai his sons - the late Sheikh Maktoum, Sheikh Hamdan, Sheikh Mohammed and Sheikh Ahmed. Each brought to Dubai his own talents and energy. Through them, Sheikh Rashid's vision of Dubai has been carried forward.
Rashid's Legacy portrays a family that has transformed modern Dubai and the UAE, and is today impacting on regional and international levels.
Given far reaching access to those who have known the Maktoum brothers best, the author was privileged to go further and deeper than any writer has yet been able in tracing the genesis of modern Dubai.
Using printed archives from around the globe and the recollections of those who have been involved with, or observed, Dubai's extraordinary period of modern development, Rashid's Legacy paints a portrait of a family dedicated to their people and determined to construct a cohesive and sustainable future.

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