As with all articles like this it obviously has some generalisations and untruths in it, and its aim is to go out and find people who will paint a particular picture. But that picture clearly exists, as we all know already. So it's not really reporting anything that most of us weren't aware of, but the interviews are all very interesting.
(As a brit, I'd like to apologise for my fellow countrymen who were interviewed. What a great advertisement they are.)
It's hard to call what will happen to Dubai. The issues that have been around for years (slavery, expats, etc) wont cause it to collapse - if they were going to it would have happened already - but the recent financial crisis must be a huge worry. How long can it be bailed out by Abu Dhabi?
Qatar obviously shares many of the same issues, and they are treated in much the same way - look the other way, brush it under the carpet, everything is fine. Whether the financial crisis will bring Qatar down is something that's been discussed a lot already on QL. Qatar has more resources than Dubai, and hasn't gone as mad building stuff. But still, it must be a worry for someone, somewhere. At least you'd hope someone was worrying about it.
Damn, that's a long article!
As with all articles like this it obviously has some generalisations and untruths in it, and its aim is to go out and find people who will paint a particular picture. But that picture clearly exists, as we all know already. So it's not really reporting anything that most of us weren't aware of, but the interviews are all very interesting.
(As a brit, I'd like to apologise for my fellow countrymen who were interviewed. What a great advertisement they are.)
It's hard to call what will happen to Dubai. The issues that have been around for years (slavery, expats, etc) wont cause it to collapse - if they were going to it would have happened already - but the recent financial crisis must be a huge worry. How long can it be bailed out by Abu Dhabi?
Qatar obviously shares many of the same issues, and they are treated in much the same way - look the other way, brush it under the carpet, everything is fine. Whether the financial crisis will bring Qatar down is something that's been discussed a lot already on QL. Qatar has more resources than Dubai, and hasn't gone as mad building stuff. But still, it must be a worry for someone, somewhere. At least you'd hope someone was worrying about it.