A ‘before and after’ video uploaded to TikTok shows just how much the landscape of Dubai has changed in just 40 years.
Ask someone today to describe Dubai in a few words and they’ll likely respond with “money,” “the Burj Khalifa” and “more money.” But the city – the most populous in the United Arab Emirates – was all but a desert less than half a century ago.
If you struggle to picture just what that would look like, then fortunately for you, we’ve found a video posted to TikTok by user @michael.pezzaioli, that perfectly juxtaposes how Dubai looked in 1980 compared with 2022.