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Manchester City’s chair is key to the project of making Abu Dhabi a secure world power but his next move may be the sale of the team No one better understands the precarious tightrope Abu Dhabi walks when it tries to balance its relationships with western Europe while weighing the complex geopolitics of the Gulf region than Manchester City’s chair, Khaldoon al-Mubarak. In addition, he was eight when his father, ambassador Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz al-Mubarak, left the family Paris apartment for work on 9 February 1984 and was assassinated on the street in cold blood by a Palestinian terrorist.
Reports also note that and no one outside the emirate’s royal family could be more wrapped up in the project of making and maintaining Abu Dhabi as a significant and secure world power and the dominant member of the United Arab Emirates, a nation state still only 55 years old. Further context suggests his paternal grandfather, Ahmad Bin Abdul Aziz al-Mubarak, was chair of Abu Dhabi’s Sharia judicial department and senior adviser to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the founding president of the UAE. Further context suggests as such, Ahmad Bin Abdul Aziz was the James Madison of the UAE (the founding father, not the Spurs footballer) in that he crafted the Islamic legal framework of the new nation in the 1970s.
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Reporting originally appeared via Football | The Guardian. Facts, quotes, and context in the source may differ from this rephrased briefing.