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on “dubai-bashing”

Todd Reisz and Rory Hyde, who are writing about research from Al Manakh at the Huffington Post, describe what they call the phenomenon of “Dubai-bashing”, and argue that the phenomenon reflects Western insecurities more than it does actual conditions in Dubai.  While I have no doubt that Dubai is indeed a more complex entity than […]

slave labor and ecological urbanism

Finally got around to reading the article that Becker posted on Dubai; it is very disappointing that these problems were glossed over/not presented at all during discussion of Masdar (which is not in Dubai, but another one of the Emirates, Abu-Dhabi) and Dubai at the Ecological Urbanism conference, particuarly since (a) the discussion of Masdar […]

the dubai slave state

 In Dubai, everyone is a slave: Expats to their remaining sources of income, and themselves; Emiratis to The State; and the Workers, to everyone. Tragic, a must -read piece of reporting. Via Sullivan