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There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
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There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
Write a comment
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Saudi Gazette
1 hr middot
The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with
opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation
SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE
Ahmad Raza posted a video to Muhammad Imran Maliks
timeline Funny Scary Prank Must Watch
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There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent
There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent
There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with
opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation
SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE
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look httpajeme1jFtYW0
Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in
East China Sea and South China Sea
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Tahir Attari Qadri Ahmedabad and Muhammad Sarfaraz Siddiqui
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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent
There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent
There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with
opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation
SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE
Ahmad Raza posted a video to Muhammad Imran Maliks
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Interactive May 2014 has seen China rapidly escalating its presence in
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look httpajeme1jFtYW0
Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in
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expand Makkah with a new residential area for 800000 people
GOOGL
Tahir Attari Qadri Ahmedabad and Muhammad Sarfaraz Siddiqui
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All i noticed she was wearing a GoPro Muhammad Umer Faisal
Qayoom Waseem Ahmad Shumail Mohyuddin Basir Ahmad
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Mons photo
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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent
There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent
There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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Saudi Gazette
1 hr middot
The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with
opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation
SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE
Ahmad Raza posted a video to Muhammad Imran Maliks
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Yesterday at 430pm middot
Interactive May 2014 has seen China rapidly escalating its presence in
waters that are subject to territorial disputes with its neighbours Take a
look httpajeme1jFtYW0
Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in
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Can Afghanistan harness a fortune in unexploited precious stones and
rescue its economy
Watch more on httpajeme1nhDuRN
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Mir Omer via Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK
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15 hrs middot
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expand Makkah with a new residential area for 800000 people
GOOGL
Tahir Attari Qadri Ahmedabad and Muhammad Sarfaraz Siddiqui
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All i noticed she was wearing a GoPro Muhammad Umer Faisal
Qayoom Waseem Ahmad Shumail Mohyuddin Basir Ahmad
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Mons photo
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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent
There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with
opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation
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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent
There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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Saudi Gazette
1 hr middot
The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with
opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation
SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE
Ahmad Raza posted a video to Muhammad Imran Maliks
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Yesterday at 430pm middot
Interactive May 2014 has seen China rapidly escalating its presence in
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look httpajeme1jFtYW0
Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in
East China Sea and South China Sea
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Can Afghanistan harness a fortune in unexploited precious stones and
rescue its economy
Watch more on httpajeme1nhDuRN
Afghanistans hidden gemsAL JAZEERA ENGLISH | BY PEOPLE AND POWER
Mir Omer via Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK
(MPACUK)
15 hrs middot
MI5 accused in further case of complicity in torture -iENGAGE
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Makkah mega project unveiledThe gov ernment plans to spend SR1 60 billion ov er the next 20 y ears to
expand Makkah with a new residential area for 800000 people
GOOGL
Tahir Attari Qadri Ahmedabad and Muhammad Sarfaraz Siddiqui
shared DawateIslamis video Hamara Madani Maqsad
Hamara Madani Maqsad - Mujhey Apni aur Sari Duniya Ke Logon Ki Islah Ki
Koshish Karni Hai
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امرأة
9 hrs middot
All i noticed she was wearing a GoPro Muhammad Umer Faisal
Qayoom Waseem Ahmad Shumail Mohyuddin Basir Ahmad
أخطر مغامرة بطلتھا امرأة
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Kochadaiiyaan Rajini mania begins
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Regional cinema News - India Today
Manam Nagarjunas Manam Has
Record Amount Of Advance Ticket
Booking
X-Men Days of Future Past X-Men
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Memorial Day weekend
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Implement wireless
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ups flip flops amp more
Furniture Brands Survey
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You are among a handful
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answer this 2-minute
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YOUR APPS MORE
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Chs video
Dholpur Dargah Sharif
was tagged in Faizane
Aulias photo
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Qadri likes Hamayun
Mutlabs photo
Arif Hussain likes Tintu-
Mons photo
Zarlish Khan Afridi
commented on her own
status
Yawar Hussain likes
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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent
There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with
opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation
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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent
There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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Saudi Gazette
1 hr middot
The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with
opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation
SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE
Ahmad Raza posted a video to Muhammad Imran Maliks
timeline Funny Scary Prank Must Watch
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Aap ki gurya
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Yesterday at 430pm middot
Interactive May 2014 has seen China rapidly escalating its presence in
waters that are subject to territorial disputes with its neighbours Take a
look httpajeme1jFtYW0
Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in
East China Sea and South China Sea
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Can Afghanistan harness a fortune in unexploited precious stones and
rescue its economy
Watch more on httpajeme1nhDuRN
Afghanistans hidden gemsAL JAZEERA ENGLISH | BY PEOPLE AND POWER
Mir Omer via Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK
(MPACUK)
15 hrs middot
MI5 accused in further case of complicity in torture -iENGAGE
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Makkah mega project unveiledThe gov ernment plans to spend SR1 60 billion ov er the next 20 y ears to
expand Makkah with a new residential area for 800000 people
GOOGL
Tahir Attari Qadri Ahmedabad and Muhammad Sarfaraz Siddiqui
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Hamara Madani Maqsad - Mujhey Apni aur Sari Duniya Ke Logon Ki Islah Ki
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امرأة
9 hrs middot
All i noticed she was wearing a GoPro Muhammad Umer Faisal
Qayoom Waseem Ahmad Shumail Mohyuddin Basir Ahmad
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Aulias photo
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Mons photo
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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent
There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with
opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation
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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent
There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the
expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the
foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by
their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra
the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers
Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are
bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on
cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted
on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat
like sponges being slowly wrung out
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete
buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and
sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening
to them
Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here
they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four
years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could
earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction
projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great
food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka
(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to
this paradise
As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his
construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from
now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western
tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he
was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go
home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well
then youd better get to work they replied
Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents
ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and
all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh
He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds
where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three
shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with
excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat
is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the
height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can
pray for a moment of breeze
The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says
The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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Saudi Gazette
1 hr middot
The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with
opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation
SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE
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Interactive May 2014 has seen China rapidly escalating its presence in
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look httpajeme1jFtYW0
Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in
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Watch more on httpajeme1nhDuRN
Afghanistans hidden gemsAL JAZEERA ENGLISH | BY PEOPLE AND POWER
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15 hrs middot
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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else
You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes
out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent
allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are
trapped here even longer
He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds
upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years
here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-
by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant
You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on
strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police
surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out
and back to work
The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are
trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually
another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my
land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings
Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have
disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything
Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay
our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison
This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take
your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the
complicity of the Dubai authorities
Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction
projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the
construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even
then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion
overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their
nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to
stop counting
At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one
ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In
the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious
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1 hr middot
The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with
opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of
historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo
(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed
anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported
Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation
SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE
Ahmad Raza posted a video to Muhammad Imran Maliks
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Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in
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Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in
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