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Ep 8: Saadiyat Island: the hidden history

Ep 8: Saadiyat Island: the hidden history

Update: 2016-04-28
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Long before planners imagined its luxury hotels and quality museums, Saadiyat was a place to call home until the early 1990s. John Dennehy talks to Nick Leech, a feature writer at The National about this secret history.
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