Dubai: Miracle or Mirage

Synopsis: This one-hour documentary examines one of the world’s most fascinating and fastest developing city-states. Dubai, while a centre of luxury and excess, is also home to hundred of thousands of migrant labourers with little or no rights. They, along with a wave of other expats, are transforming Dubai into an economic and tourist powerhouse. To accommodate foreigners, especially the tourists, Dubai, a Muslim state, turns a blind eye to some of the visitors’ excesses, to the great displeasure of many of the local Emirati. The driving force behind all this change is Dubai’s leader, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum. He, with the help of his Maktoum relatives, has set Dubai on a daring course to be the first non-oil based economy in this volatile part of the world.
Language: English
Country: United States
Year of release: 2012
Subjects: Business studies; Geography
Keywords: economic geography; migrant workers; Dubai

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