Getting a fixed landline home phone connection in Dubai
If you want to get connected to a fixed-line phone in Dubai you have only two options – Etisalat or Du, both of whom are largely state owned. There may be some restriction of choice dependent on the area you are based in. Etisalat offers a choice of prepaid or postpaid landline options and give [...]
The rise, fall and salvation of Dubai
The First Post has a great background piece on the rise and, much exaggerated, fall of Dubai. It features a potted history of how Dubai became so wealthy and why the emirate chose to take the direction it did – because its oil resources were predicted to be exhausted by the 2020s for those who [...]
Israeli tennis player banned from Dubai Tennis Championships
Just when Dubai didn’t need it, along comes more bad publicity. This time in the shape of the controversial decision to deny Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer a visa to play in the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships. It was always coming, of course, and no doubt the recent troubles in Gaza made it all the [...]