First up is the Sheik Zayed Roundabout:
This rounadabout is on Khalifa Street, one block of the Islamic Institute (boys campus of UAE University). You can see it on Google Maps here. As you can see, it has a pretty interesting statue of Sheik Zayed and four palm trees.
Here is a closer view of the top. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if the brass colored metal supposed to symbolize anything? Maybe a moon cresent?
Below that is this, which I assume is stylized Arabic writing. I have a terrible time reading stylized Arabic, but it looks like it begins with aleph and ends with ya and ra. Can anyone tell me what the rest of it is?
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Cool!
I want to know what the glass-house thing on a pedestal roundabout is all about. It looks as if it's filled with a dead forest!
Which one do you mean, the Al Ain Hospital one or the one in Maqam?
For the last picture, the word written is Al Khair, next to the palm tree. Khair means goodness / kindness / wealth depending on the context. From the palm tree next to it, it propably is meant as goodness from Dates.
I just noticed that Al Khair was placed under Sheikh Zayed's profile. It is refering to Zayed Al Khair, which he is sometimes called because he brought wealth and prosperity to his people and is well loved and remembered.
don_veto,
Thanks for the translation. I would never have guessed that the letter I was missing was kha.
Brn - I'm not sure where it is exactly. All I know is that we go through it if we head to Jebel Hafeet and turn right by Hili Fun City off the Dubai-Al Ain road.
A new one. That one wasn't there when I was last in Al-Ain, but Sheik Zayed was still alive at the time.
I never was able to get the link to Google map working for me, anybody having the same problem? I also tried this many times before (getting a map of any city in UAE on google) with no luck, any idea?
Thanks
Ash
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