The Wages of Oil Quotes

“The Bani Yas Arab merchants lived mostly in Deira, on the north side of the creek that divides Dubai. The Persian merchants lived on the south side. The ruler, too, lived on the south side of the creek, in what often is seen as a residential indication of partiality.89”
― Michael Herb, The Wages of Oil: Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE