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Dubai History
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Dubai:
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By Yasser Elsheshtawy
Routledge
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Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city’s urban development. With the help of case studies and surveys this book explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai’s urban growth, its changing urbanity and its place within the global city network. Uniquely, it looks beyond the glamour of Dubai’s mega-projects, and provides an in-depth exploration of a select set of spaces which reveal the city’s ‘inner life’. |
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By Julia Wheeler
Explorer Publishing
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BBC Gulf Correspondent Julia Wheeler was granted the unique privilege to talk to some of Dubai's founding citizens about how life once was in this mesmerising emirate. This collection of stories provides a rare insight into a city that has undergone one of the most dramatic metamorphoses in modern history. Paul Thuysbaert's intuitive and imaginative portraits transport these stories into the present and give Dubai a compelling face. |
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By Michael Schindhelm
Arabian Publishing Ltd
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In early 2007, writer and theatre director Michael Schindhelm was appointed by the Dubai authorities as consultant on a projected opera house, and in early 2008 found himself with a broader remit as director of the newly founded Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. His diary of 2008 is a partly fictionalized account of his first twelve months of both working and living in Dubai. It is a meditation, from a cultural perspective, on the nature of this extraordinary city and its project to reinvent itself according to new rules of its own devising. From the outset there were profound cultural issues to be faced. Can essentially alien art forms be transplanted effectively? Can they be imposed top-down by the authorities? Can high culture ever be financially self-supporting? In a society run like a business by a tiny, unaccountable elite, in which freedom of speech is limited and 90 percent of the inhabitants are transient, expendable expatriates, can the arts realistically be nurtured as a form of social expression and self-examination? The author's efforts to create projects were undermined by misunderstandings over the nature and purpose of the arts - in his employers' conception, little more than a marketing tool to boost Dubai's brand as a premier global tourist resort. His woes were compounded by the lack of clear distinction between government and private enterprise, and by the very Arabian custom of bringing in privileged outsiders to advise on, and occasionally to compete with, schemes supposedly under his direction. Ultimately, his projects were undone by the global financial crash of late 2008. Despite such travails, the author is able to see the funny side and retains some sympathy for the Dubai project. He remains optimistic, seeing in Dubai and other Gulf States a glimmer of hope for international cultural dialogue, leading to increased understanding between the Arab world and the West. |
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By Collette Lyons
Wiley
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The Unofficial Guides is the series that has sold more than four million copies.Sophisticated, cutting edge research provides readers with extremely valuable information available in no other travel series, saving visitors time and money. It is the only series that offers evaluations based on reader surveys and critiques, compiled by a team of unbiased inspectors. From how to prepare for the trip and to how to get there to when to go and importantly how to get around efficiently, this guide provides an indispensable tool on the ground. The easy to use design, detailed maps and invaluable touring plans will make sure you enjoy every minute in Dubai. Hotels are ranked and rated, and with attractions and restaurants appear in all price categories. There's also extensive information on shopping, spas, nightlife and sports. Contents include: - Valuable planning advice to ensure you have an easy trip
- All the facts and information you need for getting to Dubai.
- Where to Stay: Old Dubai vs. New Dubai on the beach - detailed information on the main hotels around Dubai Creek and at Jumeirah including the Burj Al Arab, Madinat Jumeirah hotels and The Palm Atlantis.
- Shopping covering: Gold souks; spice and textile souks; shopping malls and such as Dubai Mall, Mall of Arabia, Ibn Battuta Mall,
- Spas and pampering covering massages, wraps, and therapies.
- All you need to know about watersports and spectator sports from the Dubai World Cup horse race, Rugby Sevens, to skiing, scuba diving, sailing and golf.
All you need to know about Dining and Nightlife. |
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By Hephaestus Books
Hephaestus Books
Paperback (40 pages)
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Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book contains chapters focused on History of Dubai, Centuries in Dubai, 21st century in Dubai, Years of the 21st century in Dubai, Establishments in Dubai by century, Years in Dubai, Establishments in Dubai by year, Establishments in Dubai by decade, Establishments in Dubai by century, and Years of the 21st century in Dubai.
More info: The first human settlement in the history of Dubai was in approximately 3000 BC, when the area was inhabited by nomadic cattle herders. In the 3rd century AD, the area came under the control of the Sassanid Empire which lasted until the 7th century AD, when the Umayyad Caliphate took control and introduced Islam to the area. The area was sustained by fishing and pearl diving for a thousand years, with the first records of the town being made in 1799 when the Bani Yas clan established it as a dependency of Abu Dhabi. Dubai became a separate Sheikhdom in 1833, when the Al-Maktoum dynasty of the Bani Yas clan (initially from Abu Dhabi) took it over peacefully. The invention of artificial pearls in 1926 and the Great Depression in 1929 caused a collapse in the international pearl market, which resulted in Sheikh Saeed looking for an alternative source of income and Dubai becoming one of the leading re-export ports in the world. In 1966, oil was discovered in Dubai, which changed the country beyond recognition and led to Dubai becoming the vibrant, modern, business-centred city-state it is today. |
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By Sarah Woods
Cadogan Guides
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This book uncovers the best places for you to move to. It gives specialist advice on dealing with all the red tape, from gaining visas and work permits to buying a property and moving in. It guides you through the settling in process, from education and healthcare to cellular phone services and banking. It puts Dubai into context with details on its political, economic and religious situation, and social behaviour. It helps with the challenges of finding a job, both working for other people and setting up your own business. |
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By Syed Ali
Yale University Press
Paperback (360 pages)
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In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. It is a fascinating case study in light-speed urban development, hyperconsumerism, massive immigration, and vertiginous inequality. Its rulers have succeeded in making Dubai into a worldwide brand, publicizing its astonishing hotels and leisure opportunities while at the same time successfully downplaying its complex policies towards guest workers and suppression of dissent. In this enormously readable book, Syed Ali delves beneath the dazzling surface to analyze how—and at what cost—Dubai has achieved such success. Ali brings alive a society rigidly divided between expatriate Westerners living self-indulgent lifestyles on short-term work visas, native Emiratis who are largely passive observers and beneficiaries of what Dubai has become, and workers from the developing world who provide the manual labor and domestic service needed to keep the emirate running, often at great personal cost. |
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By Andrea Schulte-Peevers
Lonely Planet
Paperback (212 pages)
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Discover Dubai
Bargain for bling in the Gold Souq and sniff out the best scents in the Perfume Souq with our market shopping tips
Travel by traditional wooden boat across Dubai Creek
Sample tasty international cuisine in eateries in Deira’s backstreets
Take a day trip to Sharjah, Dubai’s culture-rich northern neighbor
In This Guide:
Special chapter on desert safaris and day trips to nearby villages
Explore the city with our in-depth neighborhoods coverage and walking tours
Content updated daily – visit lonelyplanet.com/dubai for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates and traveler insights
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By Ronald Codrai
Motivate Publishing
Paperback (224 pages)
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By Noor Ali Rashid
Motivate Publishing
Hardcover (144 pages)
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