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Seeing the United Arab Emirates

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The Summit pulled together experts on roughly seventy different topics to discuss the current and future state of major issue areas: areas as varied as water, mining, nanotechnology, governance, economic development, economic meltdown (kidding) and so on. Of course, one of the investments made by the emirates has been in mosques.

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To Dubai on an Emirates Airbus 380

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It was easier to say yes than usual: I'd never been to Dubai or the region, and the government of Dubai and Emirates airline offered to fly me there business class! My full set of pictures are on Flickr: Dubai, UAE, Oman and Airbus 380 - a set on Flickr Flying down the Persian Gulf, alongside Iran's coast, we arrived in Dubai.