But Dubai wasn't always an opulent metropolis. In pictures from its recent past, the city looks unrecognisable as a vast expanse of desert complete with roaming camels. The city's beginnings can ...

It's very natural for us to feel at home in the desert.” Dubai may have undergone the most stunning transformation in less than three decades with iconic skyscrapers changing the landscape ...

Yet, before the city we know today was built, Dubai was nothing more than miles and miles of desert sand. A simple online ...