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The first hotel in the Emirates: the “BOAC Rest House” at Sharjah airfield
49. IOR/R/15/2/1035, PR Bahrain to PA Bahrain, 27 May 1949; PA to PR Bahrain 21 June
1949.
50. IOR/R/15/4/15, Trucial Coast News Report no. 22, 24 November – 8 December 1949.
51. Al Qaidi (note 8), pp. 21-22.
52. Pirie (note 16), pp. 157-60.
53. O’Shea (note 25); for his career, see N. Stanley-Price, ‘Raymond O’Shea and The Sand
Kings of Oman as a source for Trucial Coast history’, in N. Cooke and V. Daubney, eds,
Every traveller needs a compass. Travel and collecting in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE
and Oxbow Books, Oxford and Philadelphia, 2015), 155-170.
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