Free zones and trade
Due to its location, Dubai was traditionally a convenient place for business to bridge the gap between East and West and it continued to be an important trade route in the 1970s and 1980s. Dubai has a free trade in gold and until the 1990s was used as a base for smuggling gold ingots into [...]
Why are there so few Americans in Dubai?
You would think that Dubai would be an American’s dream, like a cross between Vegas and New York everything is bigger, grander, gaudier than anywhere else. It has McDonalds, Pizza Hut and all the usual multi-nationals to make them feel at home, yet there are only 19,000 Americans amongst the 1.2 million expat population. It’s [...]
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