Comprehensive, fun and easy to use, this book covers everything worth knowing about Dubai and where to do it. Meticulously updated by a resident team of writers, photographers and lovers of life, the result is the most in-depth, practical and accurate coverage and recommendations around. Ideal for residents, short-term visitors and tourists; essential for anyone in this vibrant and surprising city. It contains New Resident tips and advice; Independent reviews of over 500 restaurants, bars and cafes; Leisure and sporting activities from Abseiling to Entertainment to Zoology; Exploring - from museums and heritage to the latest shopping malls; Everything fully referenced to 30 pages of photographic maps; Plus a pull-out city map. This is the insiders' guide to what's hot and what's not in Dubai and the Emirates!
Today, Dubai is a city of shimmering skyscrapers attracting thousands of tourists every year.
EMPLOYMENT ISSUES: Expatriate staff employed in Dubai must be sponsored by their employer for UAE residency and work visas. The employer must hold a valid operating licence from the concerned Dubai licensing authority in order to ...
Heritage Attractions Dubai Museum The Dubai Museum is housed within the beautifully restored Al Fahidi Fort, which was built around 1787 to defend the city against invasion The museum's diverse collection of exhibits gives a fascinating ...
Sheikh Zayed Road is, after all, Dubai's main thoroughfare, its two walls of skyscrapers one of the city's more forbidding emblems of the new “Muhammedan era.” In the vicinity of an approximately five-mile stretch of Sheikh Zayed Road ...
'Winning Expo 2020 marked the city's coronation and the world could no longer deny Dubai its rightful status as one of the era's more illustrious cities.' — Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams ...
1820 Dubai signs the 'General Maritime Peace Treaty' with Britain 1833 Dubai becomes an independent settlement of Abu Dhabi; rule of the Maktoum family begins 1841 Smallpox epidemic breaks out in Bur Dubai 1892 Trucial States are ...
INTERVIEW Fahad Al Gergawi CEO, DUBAI INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT AGENCY GLOBAL gateway Dubai's success in attracting new investors and retaining old ones is rooted in its economic diversity and openness to employ capital, innovation, ...
Facebook recently announced its aim to expand its presence in the GCC region by establishing an office in Dubai. ... DEDICATED FREE ZONES: Dubai's government has drawn on the success of its free zone development model to set up several ...
Dubai's manufacturing sector is very concentrated, with the top-four segments accounting for around 70% of imports, and 72% of exports and re-exports. State-owned Emirates Global Aluminium is the fifth-largest primary aluminium producer.
Dubai rises from the champagne coloured desert dunes like a shimmering mirage – there's an air of unreality, as if its gleaming towers and glittering palaces could float into the air, or back into the lamp of some hyperactive genie.