The United Arab Emirates ( UAE) of which Dubai is one of seven constituent elements, is in essence a conservative Muslim country. I See The Stars At Noon: filming Moroccos emigration hunger ( October 2005) Read his account of making a documentary about illicit crossings from Africa: Saeed Taji Farouky is a journalist, photographer and filmmaker. After five days, it finally dawned on me: Dubai is the Las Vegas of the Middle East an oasis in the desert, a haven of relative freedom in a conservative region, and most importantly, outside the fantasy of oversized malls and opulent hotels, a rather ordinary city with ordinary problems.
On the opening night of the second annual Dubai International Film Festival ( DIFF), I stood, blinking in the beam of the spotlights and flashbulbs, trying to figure out why the plush city-state seemed so familiar to me.
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