(The Burj Khalifa — previously the Burj Dubai — on opening night, 4 January 2010; photo credit: Steve Clemons) Here is a farewell pic from Dubai — a picture of the new tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa (which until a few hours ago was known as the Burj Dubai).
(photo credit: Steve Clemons) A stunning fireworks show and water dance ensemble opened the latest claimant to tallest building in the world in Dubai tonight.
Photo credit: http://boardingarea.com/blogs/flyingwithfish/files/2009/08/jfk_tsa_021.jpg Anya Landau French is director of research for the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative. Responding to the attempted bombing of a U.S.
(Hendrik Hertzberg, Steve Clemons and Charles Kaiser in Dubai) This morning I am out to see more of Dubai — along with two terrific social and political commentators, the New Yorker‘s Hendrick Hertzberg, who has his own blog at the magazine and Charles Kaiser, publisher of Full Court Press and author of the The Gay…
Just arrived in Dubai today and have given a couple of talks here about President Obama’s foreign policy efforts and team on what is almost the one year anniversary since he moved into the White House.
First of all, many thanks to Rachel Maddow for the shout out above. She’s the great one. Keith too. The link that she is referring to of mine is the one I recently posted on the US broadening its Middle East gambit into Yemen.