Dubai Skyline in 2002 re-imagined in 2015.
   Skyscrapers cut the background along the Sheikh Zayed Highway while pink flamingos look for food by the Creek at the Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
   Beneath a glitzy skyline wooden boats ply Dubai Creek, the historic heart of a city that was transformed in little more than a generation from a tiny pearling and fishing port to a global trading hub.
   In 1948, visionary leader Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum shared a quiet moment with his son, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
   There is a compact, preserved district in Dubai that represents the past.
   There, one finds an excellent museum housed in an old fort containing remains and artifacts over 3,000 years old—an invitation to understanding the history of Islam.
   Geoffrey is pictured here during an early 2002 visit at the restoration.
   One sees and hears amazing things in Dubai, and it is reassuring that in this place, the past lives with the future.