The adult daughter of Dubai’s ruler tried to escape a life of stultifying restrictions. She was captured at sea, forcibly taken back, and has not been heard from since.
Read it here
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Dubai has glitz but no real sewage system
Quite astonished by this:
The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world. It’s located in Dubai, a city with a lot of other skyscrapers. What Dubai doesn’t have: A central sewage infrastructure that can accommodate the needs of a bunch of skyscrapers.
You see the problem.
To solve the issue trucks come and collect wastewater from separate buildings, and then can queue for up to 24 hours to deliver it to treatment plants. Perhaps before building the next mega-mall, Dubai might invest in the unglamorous basics.
Links January 29th and February 3rd
Automatically posted links for January 29th through February 3rd:
- Qatar reports new damage to Gulf undersea cables – Fourth time in a week – I think there’s a conspiracy afoot
- Libya Sovereign Wealth Fund to Shun U.S., Ghanem Says – Qadhafi puts his country’s money elsewhere
- Ezzedine Choukri: “?? ???? ????? ?? ????? ???? ??? ?” – Rafah episode shows current situation is losing one for all
- The path of centrist political Islam by Khalil Al-Anani – Al-Anani says MB hopeless, Wasat way forward
- Robert Fisk: The curious case of the forged biography – Fisk, hagiographer of Saddam Hussein
- Making a Great Arab City – I like this Rami Khouri piece on Dubai even though I am skeptical, because it praises the tradition of Arab cosmopolitan urbanism
- Arab Media Watch Arab Media Watch > Home – UK outfit combats anti-Arab bias in press
- Hamas explodes a giant hole in Egypt’s political cover – Op-ed takes Egypt’s hypocrisy on Palestine to task
- It’s time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton – Faraday prize winner defends historic Arab scholarship
- For sale: West?s deadly nuclear secrets – Whistleblower says top US officials sold nuke secrets to Pakistan (the person is not named in the article, but others say it’s Marc Grossman)
- Al-Jazeera Journalist Arrested in Egypt – Howeida Taha arrested, again
- AFP: Egypt censors book fair – Mohammed Choukri, Milan Kundera, Elias Khoury, Hanan al-Sheikh censored from Cairo Book Fair.
Links for January 13th
Automatically posted links for January 13th:
- Arab Stereotypes in American Film – Jack Shaheen short
- Barack Obama – I’m sure we’ve seen him somewhere before – Armando Iannucci on Obama: it’s dead on
- Comment is free: Laughing at dictatorship – Ibrahim Hudaibi on Mubarak jokes
- Arabs eye £500m Liverpool buy-out | Sport | The Observer – Dubai group to buy Liverpool FC
- Citi Looking Abroad For Major Investors – WSJ.com – Waleed Bin Talal to invest