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The Slaves of Dubai

The BBC's Ben Anderson travels to Dubai, the jewel of the Arab world, and discovers that it's almost entirely built upon imported slave labor.

For months, the BBC’s Ben Anderson hung out around the glittering, insane towers springing up in Dubai trying to infiltrate the community of expatriate workers who are putting them up. What he found when he finally got in was that the jewel of the Arab world is almost entirely built upon imported slave labor.