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    Burqalicious: The Dubai Diaries: A True Story of Sun, Sand, Sex, and Secrecy
    Burqalicious: The Dubai Diaries: A True Story of Sun, Sand, Sex, and Secrecy
    Burqalicious: The Dubai Diaries: A True Story of Sun, Sand, Sex, and Secrecy
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    Burqalicious: The Dubai Diaries: A True Story of Sun, Sand, Sex, and Secrecy

    By Becky Wicks

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    As a sassy young woman used to drinking, partying, blogging, and shopping her way through dreary London, the call of a glamorous, tax-free career in sunny Dubai just couldn’t go unanswered. Over the course of two years, an entire city funded by oil wealth rises from the dust around her as Becky rapidly scales the career ladder. She becomes a celebrity editor in a land where sex definitely does not sell and spends most nights in a five-star blur of champagne luxury. 
    Dubai offers everything, but things soon get messynot least because a wealthy Arab man makes her his mistress. Skinny-dipping, affairs, gay partiesWicks soon discovers just how easy it is to break the law in Dubai! Wicks lifts the burqa from the razzledazzle and reveals some of the most scandalous goings-on in the world’s fastest up-and-coming city of gold.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateJul 15, 2012
    ISBN9781620874455
    Burqalicious: The Dubai Diaries: A True Story of Sun, Sand, Sex, and Secrecy
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    Becky Wicks

    Becky Wicks was born in 1979. She attended the Gleed School for Girls, also known as 'The Virgin Megastore' in small town Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. She studied media production at Lincoln University, but was writing freelance from the age of 14. She arrived in NYC in 2001 at age 21. She worked for a production company and wrote for a NYC restaurant guide, as well as a Brooklyn community mag (also dated the editor, who broke her heart). Back in London, from 2004 she worked for a travel and entertainment dot com which led her to theatre-land, interviewing West end actors and reviewing more restaurants.

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