Assalamu Aleikum!
Since moving to the UAE I haven't visited Dubai. Lots of brothers warned me of how much they hated it when they visited. To be honest everything they have in Dubai I can get in Abu Dhabi and it's closer! So it was going to take a special event to get me into Dubai. That event came yesterday with the final day of the Dubai Film Festival. The festival had a real international feel with movies from Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Not the usual American fare. So myself and a friend signed up for 3 movies over the course of a day including one from Lebanon about last year's war.
The drive up was long and tiring. As we drove towards Dubai I caught sight of the city. The only way I could describe it was like something out of the Wizard of Oz. These massive skyscrapers rising out of the flat sand. Actually on second thoughts it was like a cross between the Wizard of Oz and Bladerunner. Is this what cities will look like in future? Land is plentiful and yet the architects were designing buildings as high as the next. Each building was about twice as high as the ones in Abu Dhabi.
In the malls there was a marked difference with Abu Dhabi. The traditional clothes worn in Abu Dhabi almost didn't exist here. In fact you would never know you were in the Middle East. After a day in Dubai I'm quite glad I live in the desert.
Masalamah
Yahya
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