5 pieces from the editorial board
Developers & Real Estate
The developers of the emirate spent twenty years proving they could build at speed. The next test is whether what they built can be maintained, adapted and lived in.
13 October 2026 · 8 min read
Finance
Two years in, the practical effect of UAE corporate tax has been less about rates than about record-keeping, and the gap between groups that prepared and groups that did not is now visible.
7 October 2026 · 7 min read
Technology
The most consequential technology companies in the region are not the ones that raise the most. They are the ones connecting systems nobody photographs.
30 September 2026 · 6 min read
Hospitality
The best hotel operators in the Gulf are quietly deleting rituals. What remains is a more confident kind of hospitality.
22 September 2026 · 5 min read
Excellence in Dubai
The civic quality of a city is measured on foot, in August, by someone who has no alternative.
15 September 2026 · 6 min read
