Stories about Dubai, and the UAE (United Arab Emirates)

star.gif (1139 bytes) new3.gif (284 bytes) SOARING SKYSCRAPERS The battle to build the world's tallest tower, once essentially an American obsession, is now a worldwide craze, with much of the biggest erections in Asia and the Middle East. As buildings reach higher and higher, there is seemingly no upper limit to the quest to claim the world's tallest highrise.

DESERT BASHING  - Four-wheeling up and down desert dunes is only part of the fun in Dubai, a sunny but small and long-reclusive Middle Eastern kingdom that is beginning to open up to tourism.

HONG KONG OF THE MID-EAST? That's the hope of Dubai, among the most progressive of the United Arab Emirates, which has invested its oil wealth in hotels, an airline and other infrastructure in an effort to become the top trading center of the Arab world

* all pictures, unless otherwise credited, by Ron Gluckman