Thursday, April 06, 2006
The most important city in the world?
Wow -
this article on the emerging juggernaut that is Dubai is shocking. Looks like the United Arab Emirates may not even need oil to produce their wealth. They've found an even more valuable asset . . . consumeristic Western greed. This, of course, will feed their own Middle Eastern greed, but it sure is savvy.
Dubai is set to become
"not the modern centre of the Arab world but, more than that, the Arab centre of the modern world."