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It was the hot summer of 1966 that was his first experience in the land that would be his new home – Dubai, all the way from tropical islands of Zanzibar. Today Sheikh Mohammed Abdulmuttalib ‘Mutta’ is recalling his first days in the foreign land and how the government of Dubai did all it takes to comfort Zanzibari refugees.
He left Zanzibar some 50 years ago with a heavily broken heart after his country was invaded and his people, including his own father, massacred. More than a half century later, he sits with me in GUMZO to recall the bitter days but, quite amazingly, appealing for reconciliation and new beginnings for this generation.
Mohammed Ghassani 