“One of the most important books published
in the Middle East in the past 50 years” Gulf Today Newspaper, Monday, April 24, 2006, page 4
What it took to make this book:
- 14 Meetings and Interviews with Sheikh Mohammed, one a marathon 10
hours in the desert.
- 50 major revisions
- More than three years of writing, editing, proofing and research
- Close to 4 million words of research
- 5.70 GB of space for 2650 files
- Patience and perseverance, lots of both
- Total coordination and supervision as project and production
manager to produce the best
designed book in the Arab World
