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The Sheikh on a 1967 postage stamp
Sheikh Zayed Bin-Sultan Al Nahyan (Arabic:الشيخ زايد بن سلطان أل نهيان) (born 1918) is the current ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates.
On August 6, 1966 Sheikh Zayed succeeded his brother, Sheikh Shakhbut Bin-Sultan Al Nahyan, as emir of Abu Dhabi after the latter was deposed in a palace coup. Sheikh Zayed was first elected to the presidency of the UAE in 1971 and has been reelected on four further occasions: 1976, 1981, 1986, and 1991. He is considered a liberal ruler, and allows private media.
Sheikh Zayed is considered one of the most fabulously wealthy men in the world. A Forbes magazine estimate puts his fortune at around USD $20 billion. The source of this wealth can be almost exclusively attributed to the immense oil wealth of the capital city, Abu Dhabi.
In 1999, while he was in a hospital for some tests, the people of the UAE wrote him a personal thank-you letter with 1.5 million signatures.
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