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Hello everyone, it's

Vanessa Gregoriata's and you are listening to a special short

episode of infamous. So you've listened to the story about the princesses

who escaped from Dubai.

And since then, we've gotten a lot of listener questions about the culture in that part of the world

and the UAE in specific.

So I'm going to introduce Natalie Robimed, my co-host for the series,

and our producer Shoshi Schmolavitz, who are going to discuss some of the answers to those

questions.

Okay, so before we really dive into listener questions,

Natalie, maybe you can just answer a few like very basic questions about Dubai.

First of all, where is it? So Dubai is this

small city state in a country called the United Arab Emirates that is sandwiched

kind of between Oman and Saudi Arabia, very close to Iraq, and right across a body of water from Iran.

So it's in the Middle East, does it have lots and lots of oil I mean we know this is like a a pretty

rich country yeah absolutely so the UAE itself does have a huge amount of oil. But as I said again, but UAE it's comprised of six different

states. You can think of that as similar to American states like California or Maine or whatever and where the oil is is not

dispersed equally within the country. So Abu Dhabi actually and that's the

capital has the larger reserves of oil and Dubai in comparison has very little oil actually and that is one of the reasons why they have really tried incredibly hard to diversify through tourism and real estate and a million

other assets and potential moneymakers.

This man, Sheikh Zayed, he's passed away now, but he's really known as kind of the founder of the nation.

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