Dubai is a special kind of place. Following on from that statement is another similar statement - every place is a special kind of place. To go as an ethnographer, as a researcher, as a theorist is a very particular way to look at places. Places in this vein of thinking hold secrets. They tell stories.

What secrets does Dubai hold? What does Dubai broadcast, that we do not hear, because we have not tuned in?

That is my way of saying that we rush to judge. In doing that, we miss the opportunity to develop a love for, an affection for a place, a people.

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