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| Ice Rink, Shopping Mall in Al Ain, UAE © Doug Hickok All Rights Reserved How do you find relief from the desert heat? The remedy is to head to the nearest shopping mall and ice skate beneath giant snow flakes! Yes, the word elixir has an Arabic origin... al iksir, the philosopher's stone of alchemy, purported to cure whatever ails you, and even better, to change base metals to gold! In one sense, the UAE found its own version of the philosopher's stone... its called oil. |