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Dubai
We take you to the hometown of Salah Ezzedine, the man some describe as Lebanon's answer to Bernard Madoff. Also in today's show: as Jewish settlers keep on building in the West Bank, Palestinians are still forced to cross the border to find work.
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.
GULF STATES
Tennis, football and other sports are becoming increasingly lucrative investments for businessmen in the Gulf countries who are seeing a drop in oil revenues.
In this edition of our weekly show: Dubai's real estate sector goes bust amid the global crisis; Gulf countries invest in sport to boost their image abroad; the inhabitants of Iraq's marshlands pray for rain.
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