Article And Photos By Bernie Debusmann For most people who have visited or live in the UAE, it’s hard to imagine what the country was like in the days before the world’s tallest building, seven-star hotels, overly-air conditioned shopping malls and an indoor ski slope. The few “old” structures in Dubai or Abu Dhabi, … Continue reading
Article By Bernie Debusmann Dubai means many things to many people. There is the Dubai of the Burj Khalifa, of seven-star resorts, of drunken western tourists and of rich young Arab men with expensive cars and pet lions. There are the vibrant neighborhoods of Dubai’s largest diaspora communities, where you are more likely to hear … Continue reading
Article by Bernie Debusmann While largely forgotten by Americans today, between 1979 and 1992 America was transfixed by the brutal, vicious war between the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the U.S.-backed military government. Even now, more than twenty years after the Chapultepec Peace Agreement brought an end to the fighting, the war … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket is fairly picky about contributions from correspondents as most of the proposals we receive are either not relevant, not original material (in other words, just a repost of material that has already been published elsewhere), or not particularly interesting. Fortunately, we also receive some gems from time to time, such as that … Continue reading
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