We were all set to start the morning on a light-hearted note, but then we stumbled across this eye-popping (and curiously underreported) Richard Holbrooke quote: “Karachi, the world’s largest Muslim city, 18 million people, had about four hours of electricity a day during the worst of the summer months. And we want to do things […]
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No Ice Cream in Karachi
January 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Tags:Dubai·electricity·Pakistan·Richard Holbrooke·Robert D. Kaplan
Tom Rakewell’s Nightmare Lives
December 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments
As the once-sparkling metropolis of Dubai flounders, it’s worth revisiting Johann Hari’s eerily prescient, deeply disturbing take on the city-state from earlier this year. There are lots of nasty anecdotes contained therein, but none more depressing than the fact that the United Arab Emirates still imprisons debtors, a practice abandoned in the United States during […]