Dubai دبيّ is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates.
The city of Dubai blends the mysteries of the Arab World with the influence of business and pleasure. It has grown from a humble fishing and pearl diving village into a wealthy oasis and tax-free haven in just 3 years. Now Dubai is considered a crossroad to the world. Located in a marketplace of over 2 billion people, Dubai began its evolution in the 1970’s recreating itself as a nucleus of trade and commerce in the area.
Under the extraordinary, visionary leadership of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai and Vice President of the UAE, a very cosmopolitan, free-market enterprise system was established, including a world-class infrastructure, ultra-modern facilities, a highly developed financial sector and a westernized business approach; Dubai is now well established as an economic powerhouse alongside London, New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Dubai Towers
Dubai Palm Island
4 comments:
Unfortunately all built on the backs of slave labor and some pretty horrible human conditions.
no different than building our railroads, Southern plantations, New York City, and WashDC actually.
Dear Anon: I used to think that as well, but it is far worse, believe me. Example: People leave their homes in other countries to earn a living for their families, away years at a time, then owe a high percentage of their pay to the people who got them the jobs, then the rest that is left goes towards their "housing, meals and needs", leaving them with NOTHING and now stuck in a country with no way out until the job(s) finished. They are more than slaves. They are prisoners held against their will.
Burlington, NC was the same way when the textile industry was rolling. Ernie Ford, had a song, lyrics said, owe my soul to the company store. The textile industry sold housing, food, clothes, everthing to those workers and paid them pennies. Some of those workers came from other states leaving their families behind.
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