To be concise about Dubai is harder than you think. The city stands for something in the Middle East’s way of living, but what that something is not always clear. Even after decades, you can’t easily formulate the reasons for your attachment, because the city is always transforming itself and the scale of transformation is tremendous.
Dubai builds itself, knocks itself down again, scrapes away the rubble and starts over. In Paris or Venice, a person can always view the city as it has been for centuries, as his ancestors saw. In Dubai however, a person wanders about the city like a man who has lost many teeth.
