An article published in Bidoun 11 entitled 'The Story of the Story', which critiques the criticism leveled at Dubai 's development. It argues that the future of the West's modernity is and will continue to take place 'vicariously' in places like Dubai. The West's complaints can be seen in light of the withering away of the West's economic global dominance.

By the turn of the 21st century, had the modern, Western gallery reached a terminal, evolutionary endpoint: where the memory of a century’s worth of experimental stimulation by seminal, Modernist provocateurs had been replaced by a widespread “amnesia”? At the same time, in the hyper-active, hyper-visible city-state of Dubai and the wider Gulf, Western capitalism and its attendant iconographies were being imported and amplified into spectacular un-recognition.