Once he was outside, Mohamed felt overwhelmed. He was sobbing, quietly. It was an immense honor. The task ahead was gigantic. The sheikh had promised him a large sum of money. As usual, he had been more than generous, but he demanded a lot from the men upon whom he bestowed his grace. Mohamed felt a heavy burden on his shoulders. Failure was not an option. He would make the sheikh proud.
The monarch always followed his rightful intuition. He had asked banks to lend him enormous capitals to finance the building of a deep water port. The skeptics called it an aberration, but his close counsel, who would have gladly died in his name, praised his bold move. The deep sea port gave Dubai a competitive edge over the rest of the Gulf states. Around that time, the rush for black gold confirmed tha
