Sunday 27 December 2009

Tip of the Iceberg: Nakheel Consultant Charged with Accepting Bribes

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

As one of my local mates from another Gulf country said to me during a visit to Dubai,  "This is impressive, there's quite a lot of business potential".

When I objected that most of the building was speculative, he remarked, "No, not the construction.  The commissions".

Those who follow Dubai will recall a raft of court cases from early 2008. 

SR is just a samak saghir.

2 comments:

Sharon said...

samak saghir = tip of the iceberg, i presume?

Abu 'Arqala said...

Actually, it means "small fish".

In Arabic adjectives follow the nouns: "samak" is fish and "saghir" is small.