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Times are changing for some Arab lands (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emirates

'some arab lands' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'times are changing' is the wordplay.
'changing' is an anagram indicator.
'times'+'are'='timesare'
'timesare' with letters rearranged gives 'EMIRATES'.

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for emirates that I've seen before include "lands in the Gulf" , "United Arab -------, Gulf state" , "Territory of independent rulers in the Islamic world" , "Abu Dhabi and Dubai, say" , "Federation of Arab states" .)

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