Our apartment building on Jumeirah Beach

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

United Arab Emirage

There's been a lot of Dubai bashing in the past couple weeks, since the Dubai World financial issues started to surface, so I thought I would share some of my favorite takes. Jon Stewart's show on December 1 featuring Dubai (they'll have to change their name to "Do-sell") is hilarious.


NPR's Planet Money podcast on December 2, "Eye on Dubai," is also interesting in that it serves to dispel the cartoonish image many Americans have of Dubai and shows what life is like on an interpersonal level for a Canadian expatriate living in Dubai. I don't know what they were expecting, but Alex Blumberg and David Kestenbaum seem unduly surprised to discover that people actually live here and like it and do things like play in local soccer leagues.

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