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A Diamond in the Desert

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Barely forty years ago, Abu Dhabi was a fishing village on the Arabian Gulf. Now the capital of the United Arab Emirates, its citizens are each worth $17 million, it holds major stakes in Western economies, and has money to burn.
In this timely, revealing and evocative portrait of a global player, Jo Tatchell traces the emirate's dramatic development and the sometimes ruinous effect of extreme wealth on its people and their desert culture. And as its rulers fund another giant leap forward, she probes behind the official facade to examine whether this secretive and controlled society can realise its breathtaking plans to transform relations between East and West.

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ISBN: 9780340953402
Publication date: 18th February 2010
Author: Jo Tatchell
Publisher: Sceptre an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 293 pages
Genres: Society and culture: general
Sociology and anthropology
Economics
Industry and industrial studies
Travel