NPR's Marketplace comes to Dubai

Marketplace, a business/economics program of the U.S. National Public Radio is in Dubai this week. Here are some of the programs it's done already:

Environmental costs of spinning sand into gold
The real Emiratis
Americans in Dubai
The dream of Dubai
It all began along a creek in the desert
Book club's ex-pats tell Dubai story

Besides audio, some of the stories have transcripts. There's also some video episodes and still images.

It's part of a larger series Marketplace is doing called The Middle East @ Work. More stories from Dubai are to come.

Cairo also figures prominently from earlier in the series.