NYT Travel: "The Burj -- Arabic for ''tower'' -- is in many ways a fitting emblem for Dubai, with its 22,000 square feet of gold leaf and its many foreign workers. Most residents are foreign workers, not natives, and most of those workers are Indian. Like Dubai itself, the Burj is crying out for an enterprising Indian documentary filmmaker with a hidden camera.
It was indeed a merry Christmas in Dubai, the tiny, striving Arab emirate that, year round, expresses something of the all-Santa-no-manger essence of the modern, secular holiday: lightheartedness, panting consumerism, glittering shallows and, for those who seek them out, depths as well. "
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
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