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Hello Dubai: Skiiing, Sand and Shopping in the World's Weirdest City | Joe Bennett

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Boom town, modern marvel, commercial hub, where middle-east meets wealthy west, playground for tourists, crawling with ex-pats, built by Indians, owned by Arabs, Dubai has risen from next to nothing to an awful lot in little more than thirty years. How? And can it go on? Has it sold itself to the corporate dollar? Is it anything more than a mall in the desert? Will the sands return? Joe Bennett goes to find out.

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Hello Dubai: Skiiing, Sand and Shopping in the World's Weirdest City | Joe Bennett

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Joe Bennett is a newspaper columnist and travel writer. Here he visits Dubai to discover what draws people to seek their fortune, how Dubai and the UAE have developed and their potential future. It‘s strong on the country‘s history and unflinching about its government and the racism of some western ex pats but despite his efforts, he doesn‘t get close to the underclass of workers who sustain it and is quite patronising in his assumptions.

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