About this course
Dubai, famous as a luxurious tourist resort on the Persian Gulf, is much more complicated and interesting than that. In this course, we dig up the past, climb the tallest, drive the fastest, and meet the people. Expect past Portuguese and British savaging, astonishing islands and skyscrapers, native wildlife in deserts and mountains, semi-slavery under its billionaire dictators, and 24-carat gold everywhere, even in your ice cream or cappuccino.