Two of the sports were held and concluded before the opening ceremony: the athletics and basketball competitions were held early to allow the athletes to prepare and attend the 1999 World Championships in Athletics and the 1999 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship, respectively, which clashed with the dates for the Pan Arab Games that year.
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Initially set to be held in Amman in 2001, the games were brought forward two years and branded as the "Al Hussein tournament" in honour of Hussein of Jordan, the long-ruling monarch who died earlier that year.
Olympic Games | 1999 | United Arab Emirates | Peter Pan | 1999 in music | Arab | Commonwealth Games | Summer Olympic Games | Pan American Games | 2006 Commonwealth Games | 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games | Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games | 2013 Southeast Asian Games | 1948 Arab–Israeli War | Winter Olympic Games | 2002 Commonwealth Games | 2007 Pan American Games | Pan American World Airways | Paralympic Games | 2010 Commonwealth Games | World Games | 2011 Pan American Games | Games Workshop | Arab Spring | 2003 Pan American Games | Asian Games | 2013 Island Games | X Games | 2006 Asian Games | Space: 1999 |