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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 ...