I wrote in the summer about the 'passing' of the Hatta/Al Ain track . It's inevitable, both the passing of the wadi tracks t...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) "Work on canal to start within weeks", Gulf News gushes this morning. Signed off last year as a s...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Chatting with pal +Ashish Panjabi  on Twitter... hang on a second. I just typed Ashish's twitter han...

Image via Wikipedia Driving past the infamous Sonapour labour camp, you can only be struck by the To Let signs up on the accommodation bloc...

This is Satwa and we're just going to see more and more of this. There are families still living amongst the rubble, but life just goes ...

Three of the landlord’s maintenance team, all Keralite bandits who had taken up building maintenance as light relief after their previous ca...

So the Dubai Lands Department is slowly rolling up all the available real estate in Dubai’s delightfully eclectic and rather human Satwa are...

Here's the link to that wonderful story in Xpress about labour accommodation.

This morning's Xpress, the weekly magapaper thingy from Al Nisr Media, carries a front cover story that had me feeling distinctly uneasy...

It was interesting to see the piece in Arabian Business magazine this week by Editor James Bennett, who got taken up to the top of the Burj...

One of the many strange and wonderful inventions to come from the mind of Michael Moorcock, one of the great novelists writing in English to...