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Visitors stand in front of a display at the Saudi Arabia Pavilion of Expo 2020, in Dubai on Oct. 4, 2021.

DUBAI — Saudi Arabia’s pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai celebrated United Arab Emirates (UAE) Flag Day last week. UAE Flag Day is a yearly event on the UAE’s calendar and marks the first raising of the flag by its founder, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, in 1971.

A film demonstrating bilateral relations between the two countries was projected onto an exterior wall of the Saudi pavilion on an inclined mirror facade that turns into a projection screen at night.

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