Minutes from the Miracle City

'A cast of vivid characters, whose interlocking fortunes and fascinatingly detailed lives create a compelling story' —Fiona Sampson, MBE FRSL, poet and writer; ‘Sabbagh situates his prose and the reader in a space where we each rehearse our failures and perhaps, our small victories' —Peter Salmon, author of 'The Coffee Story'; 'Sabbagh captures the restless, cosmopolitan spirit of Dubai through a perceptive, touching and often comic narrative in which the dreams and dramas of several disparate and engagingly drawn characters are intertwined. An original, upbeat and entertaining read' —Susannah Tarbush, journalist, reviewer and blogger; Omar Sabbagh is an extraordinary writer – intelligent, witty, sharp-eyed and compassionate' —Dr Jan Fortune, Cinnamon Press