City of Gold (Updated and Expanded Edition): Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism

by Jim Krane

With a new afterword by the author, award-winning journalist Jim Krane charts the history of Dubai from its earliest days, considers the influence of the family who has ruled it since the nineteenth century, and looks at the effect of the global economic downturn on a place that many tout as a blueprint for a more stable Middle East

The city of Dubai, one of the seven United Arab Emirates, is everything the Arab world isn't: a freewheeling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250249503
• ISBN13: 9781250249500
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 400 Pages