A federation of seven emirates of extraordinary ambition, extraordinary cultural complexity, and a vision for the future of human achievement that has no equal anywhere on earth — where the world’s tallest building soars above Dubai’s extraordinary skyline in a monument of architectural audacity that redefines humanity’s relationship with vertical space, the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque’s 82 domes, one thousand columns, and the world’s largest hand-knotted carpet create a monument of Islamic architectural magnificence that stands comparison with the greatest sacred buildings ever constructed, and the ancient Al Ain Oasis’s UNESCO-listed falaj irrigation system has sustained 147,000 date palms in the desert for thousands of years in one of the most extraordinary and most historically significant agricultural achievements in the entire Arab world.