In October of 1987 I boarded an Emirates airline flight from Cairo to Dubai for what I thought was going to be a one-month rotation to cover the “tanker war” that was raging in the Persian Gulf. My colleague, who had been covering the conflict since U.S. President Ronald Reagan had agreed to reflag 11 Kuwaiti oil tankers earlier that summer, had
The War Years Part II: Dubai Reinvents Luxury In The Sky
In October of 1987 I boarded an Emirates airline flight from Cairo to Dubai for what I thought was going to be a one-month rotation to cover the “tanker war” that was raging in the Persian Gulf. My colleague, who had been covering the conflict since U.S. President Ronald Reagan had agreed to reflag 11 […]