hospitable ritual of cooking and serving a traditional dish, to recreate a pearl’s journey from its collection by a freediver to when it is placed in a headband, or of the silver in the hilt of a khanjar dagger; for visitors to feel the value of an extremely scarce medicinal plant described as early as in the Koran, or the experience of socializing around a well; to learn how a telli is made to decorate women’s ceremonial garb; to appreciate why poetry is a form of expressing not just intimate thoughts, but also political, social, and even economic observations; to comprehend the direct connection between the desert-coast-mountain landscape trio and expressions of its intangible heritage such as popular myths and communion with the natural environment, as well as the connection to prosperity, trade, travel, tracking, flora, fauna… and of course, a craft-iness necessary not just to earn one’s daily bread, but also the water which explains the distinctive traits of this civilization. Travelers won’t be the same upon leaving as when they arrived. And neither will Dubai. CULTURE