Qualla: Al Nasla https://qualla.com/al-nasla en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/t/k/2/j/al-nasla-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Al Nasla https://qualla.com/al-nasla Al Nasla: Introduction https://qualla.com/al-nasla/ Photo credit Alexandermcnabb, CC BY-SA 4.0. For most of the year, the houses are empty. Forty modern structures stand in a wadi below the village of Rafaq in Ras Al Khaimah, built on the orders of Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum -- the man who transformed Dubai from a creek-side trading post into a modern city. But Al Nasla is not Dubai. It is a mountain settlement in Wadi Qor, deep in the Hajar range, and the young people who once lived here have long since left for the coast. The houses wait for Eid.

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/k/2/j/al-nasla-wp/tk2j-al-nasla-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Al Nasla: A Ruler's Gift https://qualla.com/al-nasla/ Photo credit Alexandermcnabb, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, who ruled Dubai from 1958 until his death in 1990, was known for his infrastructure projects -- the creek dredging, the port, the airport, the bridge that connected Deira to Bur Dubai. His attention extended beyond the city that made him famous...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/k/2/j/al-nasla-wp/tk2j-al-nasla-a-rulers-gift.mp3 0:06 2 full Al Nasla: Eid Homecoming https://qualla.com/al-nasla/ Photo credit Alexandermcnabb, CC BY-SA 4.0. Al Nasla's calendar has two seasons: the long quiet and the brief return. During Eid -- the Islamic holidays that bring families together across the UAE -- families who have scattered to Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, and the other coastal cities come back to the village. The mosque ...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/k/2/j/al-nasla-wp/tk2j-al-nasla-eid-homecoming.mp3 0:06 3 full Al Nasla: The Fort on the Hill https://qualla.com/al-nasla/ Photo credit Alexandermcnabb, CC BY-SA 4.0. An Islamic-era fort, dating to the 19th century, has recently been restored at Al Nasla. The fortification reflects the strategic value this wadi once held -- Wadi Qor is a natural corridor through the Hajar Mountains, and controlling it meant controlling movement between the coa...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/k/2/j/al-nasla-wp/tk2j-al-nasla-the-fort-on-the-hill.mp3 0:06 4 full Al Nasla: Mountain Visit https://qualla.com/al-nasla/ Photo credit Alexandermcnabb, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 2008, Sheikh Rashid's son, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum -- by then the ruler of Dubai and Vice President of the UAE -- visited Al Nasla during a tour of the mountain areas. The visit connected two generations of rulers to the same remote settlement. What the elder Ras...

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