Imagine this: you have just stepped out of the gleaming Dubai Mall, where air conditioners blast at full power, and thirty minutes later you find yourself in a completely different world - a labyrinth of narrow lanes where mud-brick walls hold the cool, and wind towers called barjeel create natural ventilation without a single watt of electricity. Welcome to Al Fahidi - the last fragment of old Dubai, miraculously surviving among the skyscrapers.

District History: From Fishing Village to Cultural Heritage

When oil was discovered in the UAE in the 1950s, few thought about preserving historic b...