Swanky skyscrapers blur past me. I have not been able to take my eyes off them since arriving in the city of Abu Dhabi. Be it the highrises, the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque or the Emirates Palace, the modern desert city’s architectural marvels just keep on getting better. Date palm trees, growing from the aesthetically pleasing dividers at recurring intervals, shade the broad roads—who would guess that a few decades back most of the locals were sand dwellers. The city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a young island city by the Persian Gulf connected with the mainland by three bridges. The Emirate of Abu…