The Houston-Abu Dhabi Sister City Association forms, establishing commercial and cultural ties between the two cities, 2001. 

Fatimah Bafagih 


Several weeks after telling a class of third graders about the UAE, teaching them a few Arabic words, and donating books about the country to the school library, the students participated in a Children’s Day Parade while dressed in clothes of the country.
— President Emeritus, Houston-Abu Dhabi Sister City Association Ellen Israel Goldberg