Middle East
Dubai Transforms for a Brighter Future
September 2020
Sep 18, 2020Doha: World Stage
January 2020
Jan 6, 2020Mice: Jeddah
December 2019
Dec 13, 2019November 2019
Nov 13, 2019Turkish Wonder
WE’RE STAYING IN İZMIR, more or less. Our home for two months is an apartment in the district of Karşiyaka, where the inhabitants refer to themselves as “35.5” — a wink to the official İzmir postal code, 35. We regularly take the 10-minute ferry ride across the Gulf of İzmir to downtown and back; with each arrival we notice the change in atmosphere, the change in pace.
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November 2019
Nov 5, 2019Adventure in the Desert
RISING OUT OF THE DESERT, framed by the world’s tallest building and another built like a giant sail over the sea, Dubai dumbfounds the first-time visitor. The eyes see a phoenix, a contemporary city of the future, while visitors tour canals in abras, traditional wooden boats. Not far away, men dressed in white attend a camel race. It seems at first like Disney’s latest and greatest project. How did this city get here, and who built it?