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Rubbing the lamp: the United Arab Emirates.(Foreign Affairs)

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| January 01, 2004 | Masson, Sophie | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A nation's glory is measured by its past and present and its civilised development: perpetuating the memory of the past, the construction of the present and the planning of the future.

--Sheikh Mohammed, Crown Prince of Dubai

THE FIRST SIGHT of the most go-ahead new city of the desert principalities jolted me into an, at first sight, odd comparison. It was like the first I sight of Venice: immediate transportation into a hallucinatory dreamworld. Venice riding on the water, emerging from the lagoon like the creation of some mythical half-monster, half-goddess, and Dubai rising from the desert sands white and flashy as a mirage, like a vision conjured by ...

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