{
  "id": 9269854,
  "title": "Half a century of sweetness: How a 74-year-old kunafa maker helped shape Abu Dhabi’s story",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/half-a-century-of-sweetness-how-a-74-year-old-kunafa-maker-helped",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-23T04:08:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/uae/abu-dhabi/half-a-century-of-sweetness-how-a-74-year-old-kunafa-maker-helped-shape-abu-dhabis-story-1.500684524"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Abu Dhabi: Try to find something in Abu Dhabi that has not changed in fifty years. Naeem Mohammad Youssef Shneik will hand you a piece of kunafa and tell you to taste it. He is 74, Jordanian, and has been making it the same way since he was sixteen. Few people in Abu Dhabi have had his particular seat for the city's transformation. A fixed spot behind a kunafa counter, decade after decade, while…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}