Youssef Nabil has made a career of immortalizing the famous in a unique photo-art style that has made him the belle of the ball on the international art circuit. Artist in residence at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris from 2003, […]
By Andrew Hammond – Analysis DUBAI | Wed Dec 2, 2009 4:02pm IST (Reuters) – Dubai nationals were alarmed by the fallout from the emirate’s debt standstill, but many hope the crisis may stem the torrent of foreigners into the conservative Gulf […]
By Andrew Hammond – Analysis DUBAI | Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:00pm EST (Reuters) – The “Dubai vision,” which has suffered a crushing blow from the freewheeling Gulf emirate’s sudden debt crisis, is the creation of one man who failed to apply […]
By Andrew Hammond – Analysis DUBAI | Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:29pm EST (Reuters) – Dubai’s debt troubles have exposed the fallacy of its once much-vaunted “model” of raising shining cities in the desert with foreign residents, finance and labor. They have […]
DUBAI – Wealthy Gulf Arab investors have only to snap their fingers and someone in Dubai’s burgeoning community of Western-trained architects will design the impossible – or the unthinkable. The emirate is fast becoming an architect’s playground as more and more outlandish […]