Inside Al Ain’s Bait Mohammed bin Khalifa: a historic building with heart

  • Date: 11-May-2021
  • Source: The National
  • Sector:Real Estate
  • Country:UAE
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Inside Al Ain’s Bait Mohammed bin Khalifa: a historic building with heart

The newly restored Bait Mohammed bin Khalifa is a patchwork of Al Ain’s past, present and future.

The old room of Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is a portal to the UAE of the late 1960s. A box-shape air-conditioning unit blares as it blasts out cold air. An old transistor radio cackles a song by Umm Kulthum. There are Arabic newspapers lying on the floor seating, with headlines that read of unification plans of the seven emirates.