A small Iraq in the south

Other Middle Eastern destinations, such as Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, have a stable political government and a booming economy with modern architecture where people can safely go to work, go to places to shop and play, and have a home and enough to eat. For some groups, traditional nomadic lifestyles continue as they have for centuries, in which people live in tents and are pastoralists or in small villages with few concessions to modernity.