Then: How Dubai Used to Move Before Dubai became a city of gleaming highways and driverless metro trains, movement across its landscape was dictated by nature and necessity. For centuries, the camel was the most reliable form of overland transport across the Arabian Peninsula, including the stretches of desert that would one day become the […]

Dubai is preparing to launch the 29th edition of Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS) from 2nd July to 30th August under the theme “Make it a Dubai Summer”, offering more than 60 days of entertainment, family experiences and major retail promotions that reinforce the emirate’s position as a leading global destination for tourism, shopping and leisure […]

Then: The Burj Khalifa in 2004 In January 2004, workers broke ground on a construction site in Downtown Dubai that few outside of a small circle of architects, engineers, and government officials fully understood. The project was known at the time simply as Burj Dubai – the Dubai Tower – and the ambition behind it […]