| Why have the expatriates been allowed in Dubai to | | | | their newly acquired headquarters keep the cricketing |
| outnumber the ethnic Arab community living there? | | | | pundits worldwide busy. Many cricket fans were |
| Estimates suggest up to eighty percent of Dubai's | | | | shocked to know when the ICC moved to Dubai from |
| current population might be composed of the | | | | London instead of a place like Mumbai where a much |
| foreigners living and working for its development. Their | | | | better cricketing infrastructure was already in place. |
| presence is overwhelming, from the dockyard to the | | | | With the passage of time they have also begun |
| sea coast, from the international airport to the lavish | | | | realizing though, why Dubai was not a bad decision |
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| finally call free of foreign incursion. The outnumber of | | | | coexistence of so many cultures on its soil gives the |
| the local populace is mammoth by any standards. | | | | conflict ridden west and central Asia a ray of hope. |
| Eighty percent is a shocking mark indeed!So why is it | | | | There may not be any better reason than this |
| taking place? Have Dubai's rulers suddenly gone crazy | | | | therefore, for the world to travel and be part of |
| and allowing invaders to take away their homeland? | | | | Dubai's perplexing experiences. The latter stands fully |
| Records will suggest contrary to any such hypothesis | | | | geared on its part for taking care of your much valued |
| though. Neither are Dubai's rulers mindless Shaikhs nor | | | | stays. Not only does it have an infrastructure at par |
| are the expatriates living there planning to take over. | | | | with most of the developed nations but it also |
| The trend of foreigners arriving in Dubai has been on | | | | surpasses them on several occasions.From some of |
| for over a century now and they have become an | | | | the best landmarks in the world to one of the most |
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| There is no reason why they will ever decide to move | | | | orthodox Islamic beliefs in Arabia to one of the best |
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