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For a decade, the sheik has tried to promote a third type of growth for Dubai, by turning the city into a place of pleasure with soaring skyscrapers, vast malls and spectacular luxury hotels.
This included positing names with or without titles such as bin ("son of", also written as ben or ibn), abu ("father of", also written as abou), sheikh (tribal leader, also written as sheik, shaikh, shaykh, cheik and cheikh) or haji (Mecca pilgrim, also written as hajj, hajji, hadj, haaji, haajj, haajji and haadj).
Whilst the alleged sheik and the Turin middleman have both disappeared, along with the 300,000 euros, the two have now been charged for attempted fraud.
Two Spanish con-men's attempted sale of a forged Goya painting backfired spectacularly after their client, supposedly a rich Arab sheik, paid them in counterfeit bank-notes worth 1.7 million Swiss Francs.
He semi-retired in 1993, after completing an episode of the TV series Sea Quest DSV, but he continued to work on new projects; at the time of his death he was preparing a documentary on his friend, Ray Bradbury, and writing a musical, Djinn, about the friendship between a Jewish immigrant and an Arab sheik in Palestine before it became Israel.
YOU can see why Tony Blair chose to take his Christmas holiday at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik.
Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King ʿAbdullah also attended the Washington summit, and Mubarak hosted a follow-up conference in Sharm el-Sheik.
All 224 people on board the Russian airliner were killed on Saturday when it crash-landed shortly after take-off from Egypt's Sharm el-Sheik resort.
On that Manchester, with the ineluctable momentum of United's tradition and the bonanza billions of City's oil-sheik owner, looks determined, for the immediate future at any rate, to remain second to none.
President Putin criticised David Cameron's decision to suspend flights to Sharm el-Sheik on Wednesday evening, saying he should not have acted until evidence supported his theory that it was "more likely than not" that a bomb brought down the Russian aircraft.
