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Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid al-Nuaimi (Arabic: شيخ حميد بن راشد النعيمي) (born 1931) succeeded his father Shaikh Rashid and became the emir of Ajmān (one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates federation) in 1981 and he is the current emir of Ajmān. Under his reign the state saw rapid changes from a small fishing town at the time of independence to a modern emirate.He received his early education in Dubai in the 1940s and 1950s and later went to Cairo for further studies.