As he waved his arm across the water body with a f lourish, he christened it ‘Emirates Mall Corniche’. This couldn’t be the name for an artificial lake that sat between a Mall and a Metro station, I thought. I had asked him, an individual who worked in the vicinity, like many others I encountered, if he knew the name of this lake. Nobody seemed to know for sure.
EMIRATES MALL CORNICHE
SHARMEEN INAYAT, UNCOMMON DUBAI +, 1 May 2018
