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Al-Nasser Square Of Dubai

 

A Short History

Dubai, once being an unknown and small port town, flourished all of a sudden as a result of the discovery of offshore oil wells during the later decades of the twentieth century. Formerly a small settlement of Beduian traders and pearl divers, Dubai has a history spread over a period of nearly five thousand years. The area was soon chosen by some nomadic Arabs to settle at due to its vast supply of fresh water. Besides, there is an easy access to the Arabian gulf as well as to Arabian sea from here. Consequently, more and more people from far and wide were attracted to come and inhabit both sides of the creek.

The modern city of Dubai is, in fact, a merger of two small towns. One being Deira and the other Bur Dubai, both lying on the northern and southern sides of a small inlet of the Gulf water known by the name of Dubai Creek. Since old times the central business district of the city is situated in Deira. It is this very Deira where is located the most renowned road junction and commercial centre of the entire middle east: the Bani yas Square or the previous Jamal Abdul Nasser Square Dubai. It was first named after the president Jamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt; hence the Jamal Abdul Nasser or briefly the Al-Nasser Square around late 1950s. During the 1980s, it was named Bani Yas Square though it is still known by its former name also. The photographs of earlier days reveal that area in which the square is nowadays was a cattle market in the past.

                  
                                Nasser Square at the Capital of the United Arab Emirates

Importance Due To Location,  

Al Nasser Square, because of its central location and due to its being in the vicinity of the Dubai Creek, is very popular with the middle and lower class citizens who rush to shop various items like crockery, cutlery, glassware, cosmetics, and electronics appliances found in the numerous shops surrounding the square. Several significant markets of the city are within walking distance from the square as the Naif Market lying at 0.3 km away from it. The Souq Al Wasi is also at the same distance from it, and the Electronic Souq at 0.5 km from it. The square is only 67 meters away from Deira Tower. Nearly half a km from the square is the Naif Park, and, 1.2 km from the square is the Dubai Museum. The are several luxurious and comfortable hotels in the vicinity of the square; such as, the Landmark Hotel, Phoenix Hotel, Piccadilly Hotel, all of them just 0.1 km away from it.    

                                                               Nasser Square Dubai

It is now a days known by the name of Bani Yas Square. Hinda, a resident of Dubai who is originally an  Egyptian lady grown up at Port Said and is, at present, a citizen of Dubai, states the place was formerly called Cinema Square for an old cinema situated there in the past.     

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