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Detailing Dubai . . .
NewsDay Staff ·
DUBAI – What the average tourist sees of it – is an ultra-modern lush green and soaring concrete oasis, surrounded by inviting warm seas in a hundred shades of blue and green and an arid, golden-brown desert, occasionally encroaching into the megalopolis.
Column by Dusty Miller
When I first visited this most vibrant tract of the 24/7-throbbing oil-and-gas-rich United Arab Emirates, it was common to hear travellers comparing its city sky-line to that of Manhattan.
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