The emirate also has a thriving private-sector middle class, but it consists almost entirely of foreigners.
Dubai, located in the southern Persian Gulf on the Arabian peninsula, is both a city and an emirate in the UAE (United Arab Emirates).
A state school in Kuwait, for instance, abruptly expelled a ten-year-old Egyptian child who had innocently asked why there was no revolution in the emirate.
It IS a story every banker in Dubai likes to tell: in the 1950s the emirate borrowed money from Kuwait to dredge Dubai creek, the first of many leveraged bets on infrastructure.
