Perhaps no other project in the budding city more epitomizes this quest for absurd grandeur than the Palm Islands, an archipelago of artificial islands that extend off the Dubai coastline like the ...

“Developing a project like this wasn't as difficult as I assumed it might be, definitely not when compared to the Palm Jumeirah, the World or Dubai Islands. The more developments that occur on ...

a travel consultant who has lived in Dubai for the last three years. Thirteen years and $14 billion later, 300 artificial islands sit shoulder-to-shoulder, most of them bare and undeveloped.