When I first arrived I also had no idea how things work here in the Gulf, I thought everyone is rich and a brave new World emerges here in the desert. Slowly you realize why we have these full labor-flights to India, the maid flights to the Philippines and Indonesia. The article is great journalism and should be a must read for every expat seeking employment in the Gulf. Yet it misses a lot of other horrid facts like the extensive prostitution and sexslave trade in Dubai, another reason why the planes are always full to Dubai on weekends from the other Gulf nations. The horrible situation of the abused child camel jockeys, the sex holiday of the Gulf Arabs to Morocco or Egypt to marry underage girls for a summer season, the beating and raping of maids, the carnage of the local youth on the roads, etc, etc, the list goes on
