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Fujayrah

or Fu·jai·rah

[ foo-jahy-ruh ]

noun

  1. Al-, one of the United Arab Emirates, on the Gulf of Oman.


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“Now U.A.E. teams are missing out on players who go to China,” Javier Aguirre, coach of Al Wahda, a club in Abu Dhabi, said in January after a victory over Dibba Club of Al Fujayrah.

In the Crash of Bull Horns, Echoes of a Desert Land of Old AL FUJAYRAH, United Arab Emirates — When the fight the audience had been waiting for arrived, a hulking black bull named Rocket, whose horns had been filed to sharp points, strutted into the dirt lot used for this city’s bullfights.

The bull face-offs in Al Fujayrah, a sleepy city on the east coast of the United Arab Emirates, are one of the cultural holdovers from the time before this patch of rocks and sand jutting into the Persian Gulf became a country in 1971.

Crowds still pack camel races outside Abu Dhabi, although robots have done the riding since the country stepped up a ban on child jockeys in 2005, and the men of Al Fujayrah still pit bull against bull.

Al Fujayrah’s old men watched the fights growing up, but they say the season was shorter and the bulls also worked, powering water wheels for irrigation — a far cry from today.

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