Dubai, Luxury and Squalor

Dubai is the fastest growing city in the world. Its strategic position and its relative political stability in an unstable Middle East, its climate make it a choice destination for business, finance and tourism. A construction boom of apartments and office blocks, which has no equivalent anywhere in the world, draws hundred of thousands of workers from Asia. These workers are helpless witnesses to a luxury they help produce but from which they receive crumbs only. The situation in neighbouring Abu Dhabi is very similar.