Intressant artikel

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/dec/20/dubai-boutique-hotel-thorpe
Håller speciellt med om detta:
"The current financial crisis has not rocked the city as much as outsiders tend to think; what it has produced is a tendency to question Sheikh Mohammed's developments more openly. I was in the city when the story broke of Nakheel's bankruptcy (the developer of the World and Palm artificial islands). Everyone had a different take on it – that Abu Dhabi would bail out Dubai, that Sheikh Mohammed would bail out Nakheel himself, that it was the sheikh's fault, the western media's fault, that there wasn't a problem at all. What everyone did agree on, bizarrely, was that the good times had returned – signified mostly by the fact that serious traffic jams were back."