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Sun - Dec 26 -

A PROFILE OF DUBAI -

Scott Wilson at the WashPost
writes an extended soft feature piece:

*As flat as Florida and with few of the natural resources that bless its neighbors, this city-state on the shores of the Persian Gulf has had to invent its own economy over the years -- and it has succeeded spectacularly.

Prosperity has made this ancient trading hub -- one of the seven states that make up the United Arab Emirates -- something like a politics-free zone in a region rippling with discontent.*


:: An Arab Politics-Free Zone ::

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