Google doodle to celebrate UAE National Day

But this year, Google is adding another touch: posting historical pictures and documents and taking the reader back to 1971, the year of unification of the seven emirates.

The UAE will be the third country to have its national archive online after the US and Netherlands, and the digital exhibition on the Google Cultural Institute comes as a result of cooperation between the UAE Ministry of Presidential Affairs, UAE National Archives and Google.

“The National Archives is our first partner in the Middle East that we work with to bring the country’s important historical moments to the world,” Tarek Abdullah, Head of Marketing for Google in Mena, told Gulf News.

“The exhibit presents an educational narration of the founding of the UAE and National Day is a key date to announce it,” he added.

Original article by Jumana Al Tamimi