{"id":1793,"date":"2007-07-24T13:14:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T17:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/2008\/07\/17\/the-sand-castle-web-print-resources\/"},"modified":"2009-03-09T17:48:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T21:48:19","slug":"the-sand-castle-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/uncategorized\/the-sand-castle-resources\/1793\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GENERAL<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/country_profiles\/737620.stm\" target=\"_new\">BBC News Country Profile &#8211; United Arab Emirates<\/a><br \/>\nProfile includes general overview, basic facts, political leaders and major media organizations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/ae.html\" target=\"_new\">CIA World Factbook &#8211; United Arab Emirates<\/a><br \/>\nAuthoritative country profile based on data collected by the Central Intelligence Agency.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=UAE&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;z=7&amp;om=1\" target=\"_blank\">Google Map of the United Arab Emirates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/unitedarabemirates\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">The New York Times &#8211; United Arab Emirates Reference Page<\/a><br \/>\nIncludes breaking news and archival articles published in The New York Times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ARCHITECTURE<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/4491650.stm\" target=\"_new\">BBC News: Snow Comes to the Deserts of Dubai<\/a><br \/>\nThe Gulf Emirate of Dubai hosts the largest indoor snow park in the world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/07\/arts\/design\/07louv.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fUnited%20Arab%20Emirates\" target=\"_new\">The New York Times &#8211; The Louvre\u2019s Art: Priceless. The Louvre\u2019s Name: Expensive.<\/a><br \/>\nExplains why Abu Dhabi is paying a multi-million dollar fee to license the name of the prestigious French museum.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oma.eu\/\" target=\"_new\">Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)<\/a><br \/>\nLeading international partnership practicing contemporary architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. Rem Koolhaas is one of the firm&#8217;s main partners.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepalm.ae\/\" target=\"_new\">Palm Islands Project<\/a><br \/>\nOfficial website of the signature architecture project involving the construction of artificial islands.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snoarc.no\/\" target=\"_new\">Sn\u00f8hetta<\/a><br \/>\nNorwegian architecture firm featured in &#8220;The Sand Castle.&#8221; Offical website features descriptions and pictures of its many projects around the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DUBAI<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6672923.stm\" target=\"_new\">BBC News: Dubai Ruler in Vast Charity Gift for Educational Foundation<\/a><br \/>\nThe ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, has donated $10 billion dollars to set up an educational foundation in the Middle East.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfercenter.org\/project\/53\/dubai_initiative.html\" target=\"_new\">The Dubai Initiative at Harvard University<\/a><br \/>\nThe primary objective of the Initiative is to bridge the expertise and resources of the John F. Kennedy School of Government\/Harvard University with the Dubai School of Government and enable the exchange of students, scholars, knowledge and resources between the two institutions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merip.org\/mer\/mer243\/kanna.html\" target=\"_new\">Middle East Report: Dubai in a Jagged World<\/a><br \/>\nEstablished in 1971, the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Washington, DC., providing information and analysis on the Middle East.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www7.nationalgeographic.com\/ngm\/0701\/feature3\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">National Geographic &#8211; &#8220;Sudden City&#8221; by Afshin Molavi<\/a><br \/>\nSheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum has led the transformation of his realm from a drowsy fishing village to a tax-free business haven and world capital of glittering excess.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/06\/world\/middleeast\/06dubai.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_new\">The New York Times: Fearful of Restive Foreign Labor, Dubai Eyes Reforms<\/a><br \/>\nExamines the government&#8217;s response to growing labor unrest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>HUMAN RIGHTS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/photos\/2006\/uae1106\/\" target=\"_blank\">Human Rights Watch: Building Towers, Cheating Workers<\/a><br \/>\nExploitation of migrant construction workers in the United Arab Emirates.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hrw.org\/doc\/?t=mideast&amp;c=uae\" target=\"_new\">Human Rights Watch: United Arab Emirates<\/a><br \/>\nNon-governmental organization investigates and exposes human rights violations around the world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hrw.org\/englishwr2k7\/docs\/2007\/01\/11\/uae14724.htm\" target=\"_new\">Human Rights Watch: World Report 2007, United Arab Emirates<\/a><br \/>\nWhile the economy of the UAE continues its impressive growth, human rights progress has been slow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENERAL BBC News Country Profile &#8211; United Arab Emirates Profile includes general overview, basic facts, political leaders and major media organizations. CIA World Factbook &#8211; United Arab Emirates Authoritative country profile based on data collected by the Central Intelligence Agency. Google Map of the United Arab Emirates The New York Times &#8211; United Arab Emirates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2657,2294,2293],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dubai","tag-ras-al-khaimah","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Sand Castle ~ Resources | Wide Angle | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Sand Castle ~ Resources | Wide Angle | PBS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"GENERAL BBC News Country Profile &#8211; United Arab Emirates Profile includes general overview, basic facts, political leaders and major media organizations. 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