Technicalities aside (see my previous post on Dubai as ‘salad bowl’ rather than ‘melting pot’) I was pleased to read The Dubai Melting Pot Is In the Kitchen Too in the New York Times. After an abundance of Dubai-bashing in the media recently, it was a relief to see a story by a writer who … Read more about The Dubai Melting Pot is in the Kitchen Too
A collection of SIM cards from around the world, several mobile phones, a Canon G10 (cracked screen and all!) and a swag of notebooks among other things, but you can find out more by visiting Matador. Although I have to admit, I don’t really use a backpack unless I’m going on a bushwalk or trek, … Read more about What’s in my backpack?
A debate over the Hari article and other Dubai-bashing stories, such as a recent piece in the Toronto Star titled ‘Dubai how not to build a city’ (this one in the whole “city of superlatives” sub-genre, and equally as bad as Hari’s, laced with just as many cliches and factual and historical errors) is raging … Read more about The Dark Side of Journalism
The story ‘The Dark Side of Dubai’ apparently wasn’t the parody I had hoped it to be, however, while I was disappointed to see The Independent (a paper I have written for before – on Dubai) print such an appalling piece, I’m pleased to see that in an effort to provide some balance they have … Read more about Looking at the bright side of Dubai
A brilliant parody of the Dubai-bashing genre of article of which we’ve seen a spate recently in the US, UK and Australian media, has been published by The Independent called The Dark Side of Dubai by Johann Hari. (To save me linking to all the stories, see this accurate analysis of the process ‘reporters’ visiting … Read more about The Dark Side of Dubai: a hilarious must-read parody of the Dubai-bashing genre