Dubai & Its Nasty Secret
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I've been to Dubai no less than 12 times and this brief article summarizes my impressions of this monument to profligacy shimmering in the desert. And it reveals a nasty little secret!
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R. Paul Stevens
R. Paul Stevens is professor emeritus of marketplace theology and leadership at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, and a marketplace ministry mentor. He has worked as a carpenter and businessman, and served as the pastor of an inner-city church in Montreal. He has written many books and Bible studies, including Doing God's Business, Work Matters, Marriage Spirituality, The Other Six Days and Spiritual Gifts. He is coauthor (with Pete Hammond and Todd Svanoe) of The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Like Paul Stevens' other books, it contains exactly 1 useful chapter that can be summarized in 1 sentence : "The secret of Dubai is that it has no sewerage system."
All the rest of this book is filler
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Dubai & Its Nasty Secret - R. Paul Stevens
Dubai & Its Nasty Secret
All Rights reserved © 2012 Paul Stevens
An Article in the Sundowner Diaries Series
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Dubai & Its Nasty Secret
All Rights reserved © 2012 Paul Stevens
An Article in the Sundowner Diaries Series
At last count, I’ve been to Dubai 12 times.
There are no mountains in Dubai. Nor is there any rain that you can speak of. Temperatures soar to an astonishing 48 degrees Celsius in the summer months.
This is generally accompanied by an exodus of expat wives and children to their home countries leaving the husbands behind to work and cope as best they can.
But the winter months are pleasant. And then is a good time to visit.
For several years my son in law was an airline pilot for Emirates. This meant an easy and cheap flight from Cape Town to Dubai. Then a 45 minute taxi ride to their villa in the desert. When I say desert, I mean desert. Basically there are several