Dubai's shattered dream - FRANCE 24

Latest update: 02/05/2009

- Dubai - Economic crisis - unemployment - United Arab Emirates

Dubai's shattered dream

Our special edition of the Week in the Middle East takes you to the United Arab Emirates, where the global economic crisis has crashed down on Dubai’s extravagant building projects and its thousands of fortune-seeking expats.

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