When I look at this article now, after several years, I just shake my head. Everything I loved is gone, the simplicity of live, the beaches, the friendly bedouins. Emirati what happened to your roots and heritage? and all that because of money. I used to hear stories of Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum (the father of Sh. Mohammed)walking through the old Shindagha, where I was so fortunate to meet him once just after my arrival in Dubai. Everybody could come to his majlis and he would listen to the stories people would tell him, he ... (more)