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Historian Farah Al-Nakib's new book, <em>Kuwait Transformed: History of Oil and Urban Life</em>, probes how much history can tell us about the country's past promises, its current quandaries, and its future potential. In this interview with architect Todd Reisz, Al-Nakib reveals how an urban writing of the Persian Gulf could,...

In this essay, Todd Reisz extracts the histories, both real and fictional, of Dubai's Aladdin City, a development project launched in February 2015. He explores its beginnings, its potential futures, and the reactions drawn from populations, both local to the UAE and beyond.