The Emirates’ largest city pitched itself to foreign workers and tourists as a sun-soaked safe haven in a volatile region. War has challenged that image.

Picture perfect Instagram posts from Marina rooftops, tax-free paychecks landing every month, and endless sunshine streaming through floor-to-ceiling windows. When I moved to Dubai, the promise of ...

Some residents in Dubai insist life is going on as normal in the eternally-sunny emirate during the Iran war. Others proclaim ...

Jessika Roso Malic got a job as a stewardess for Emirates in 2010. She moved from Phoenix to Dubai and worked there for six years. Malic said life in Dubai was glamorous, but she got burned out at ...

Dubai has deliberately constructed the reserves of attraction that outlast the damage of any particular conflict.

A rendering of the new $35 billion passenger terminal at Al Maktoum International airport. A few short decades ago, Dubai was ‘a dot in the desert.’ Now a city of more than three million people, most ...

Victoria Blinova worked in Dubai for four years at a boutique marketing firm and Nestlé. She grew up in Cyprus and moved to the UAE in 2013 to attend NYU Abu Dhabi. Expats don't pay taxes, but Blinova ...

For years, Dubai has been sold to the world as a glittering, tax-free paradise, a place where ambition is rewarded, luxury is normalised, and street safety is virtually guaranteed. For hundreds of ...