Showing posts with label Dubai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dubai. Show all posts

Monday, 7 May 2012

English the Language of Choice in Dubai?

Erin Burnett shares experience in visiting the American University in Dubai:  Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Communication.

According to Burnett, English is fast becoming the only language of a new generation of educated Arabs.
Literacy in the Gulf States is 98%, according to Unesco. But that literacy is increasingly in English, not Arabic.
Read the entire article here.

Illustration credit:  AUD

Thursday, 13 October 2011

Today We Bring You: The World

The World is a collection of private and commercial islands that form a singular expression of exclusivity. Located off the coast of Dubai and created by Nakheel, Dubai's premier developer, The World wants to become Dubai's exclusive island destination.

Learn more here. 

Photo credit:  A Nakheel development