Dubai (/duːˈbaɪ/ doo-BY; Arabic: دبي Dubayy, Gulf pronunciation: [dʊˈbɑj]) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is located on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf and is one of the seven emirates that make up the country. Abu Dhabi and Dubai are the only two emirates to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the country's legislature. The city of Dubai is located on the emirate's northern coastline and heads up the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. Dubai is to host World Expo 2020.
Dubai has emerged as a global city and business hub of the Middle East. It is also a major transport hub for passengers and cargo. By the 1960s Dubai's economy was based on revenues from trade and, to a smaller extent, oil exploration concessions, but oil was not discovered until 1966. Oil revenue first started to flow in 1969. Dubai's oil revenue helped accelerate the early development of the city, but its reserves are limited and production levels are low: today, less than 5% of the emirate's revenue comes from oil. The emirate's Western-style model of business drives its economy with the main revenues now coming from tourism, aviation, real estate, and financial services. Dubai has recently attracted world attention through many innovative large construction projects and sports events. The city has become iconic for its skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. Dubai has been criticised for human rights violations concerning the city's largely South Asian workforce. Dubai's property market experienced a major deterioration in 2008–09 following the financial crisis of 2007–08, but the emirate's economy has made a return to growth, with a projected 2015 budget surplus.
Dubai is a major city and one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates.
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Dara Daivari (born April 30, 1984) is an American professional wrestler currently performing on the independent circuit as Shawn Daivari. He is best known for his work with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as simply Daivari and with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as Sheik Abdul Bashir.
Daivari grew up admiring Mick Foley and Bret Hart. His childhood hero was Shawn Michaels. He participated in his first professional wrestling match at age 15. He started his career in the upper midwest independent scene. He is known for representing Iran for international title matches
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A Dope Jam is a jam that's totally dope
When the bass is boomin the systems smoke
You can scope and hope that it's only a joke
Sound barrier broke when it hit the high note
For the rhyme dictator, known navigator
Perpatrator hater, I rock the spectators
Cause I'm blazin, dazin, you're not fazin
Sucker MC's are always praisin
The Dope Jam
In your eyes I'm the status, the apparatus
He's Chilly D, when I rap I'm the baddest
Don't talk to bimbos, rappers give me demos
Like me they wanna be cruisin in fly limos
It's not a drug, so people, you can hang
'Dope' ain't nothin but a New York slang
For 'def' or 'fresh', word up, for 'fly'
We made the beat dope, so all get high
Off the Dope Jam
Through the door dominating, the girlies be waiting
And all of the reporters are all outstating
I rock sports arenas, big colloseums
Love the prime time cause it's in the p.m.
My name ain't Ronald, don't call me Arnold
D with a dash, my given name Donald
Don't stutter to the cutter, the D exhibit
A exhibition that you don't prohibit
On the Dope Jam
What I make I earn, don't be concerned
Cause I'm hotter than hot while Chilly D turns
A collector's item, rhymes I didn't bite em
All through the night Donald-D did write em
For your listening pleasure to the last measure
You will cherish this song like it's treasure
It will light up your day if it's gray
By the words I say with no delay
On the Dope Jam
Dope Jam
Devastating lyric maker is who I am
Who's illin for a killin like Son of Sam
You hams get body-slammed, you say, "Damn, he's ram"
You jellyfish clams can rock the king of the jam
I got energy to burn, so learn
Got a right hand stronger than Hitman Hearns
Notorious rhyme with original rhymes
That would even put a smile on Albert Einstein
At the Dope Jam
Operation radication, radication operating
Donald-D is here this year, demonstrating
The devastating touch that devour any power
Do my show, get my dough and then I tower
Over wanna-be MC's and the ones I raided
All perpetrators should be terminated
Cause the rap outlaw has come for war
The second that I step into the concert door
Of the Dope Jam