A lens into the legacy of Royal Photographer Noor Ali Rashid

Noor Ali Rashid, Royal Photographer of the United Arab Emirates. Photo: Courtesy of Noor Ali Rashid“Look at this one… that is Sheikh Zayed and me… and that one that is Nelson Mandela and me…and here — this is when they discovered oil.” Without my asking, Noor Ali Rashid, dressed in a crisp white dishdasha with his gold thin framed glasses, had opened his wallet and began showing me the photographs.

Although the photographs’ edges were worn, the memories danced vividly in his eyes. His voice is strong and his hands are steady when he points out who is who. Five decades in the United Arab Emirates have not diminished the passion for photography that Noor Ali Rashid brought with him as a young boy from Baluchistan (in present-day Pakistan).

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