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Dubai: When Pakistani national Urooba Yousuf first arrived in Dubai in 2022, she wasn’t prepared for the energy and pace of the city. Her daughter was four at the time, and as her primary guardian, Yousuf was struggling to become financially independent. Just trying to establish herself in a city f

Dubai: When Grace Agnew received a call telling her she had won an apartment in Dubai, her first response was understandable – is this a scam? But late last month, as the 51-year-old Kiwi-Brit expat stood at the Dubai Festival City Mall, holding a massive ceremonial key to the studio apartment, tha

Dubai: One of the biggest lessons Indian national Rakhi Bhadauria says she has learned in her time in Dubai, is this: Starting over is not failure. She said: “Sometimes starting over is exactly what growth looks like.” The 35-year-old Dubai resident moved from India to the UAE eight months ago, wit

Dubai: “Welcome back, Habibi. Welcome to your country.” A simple message from the immigration officer as a long-time expat returned to Dubai last week. But for 44-year-old Indian businessman Kamlesh Mahtani, those words made him stop and reflect at the 25 years he had spent building his life in the

Dubai: What makes Dubai magical? For Indian national Marion Mendes, it’s when different worlds meet. She has experienced it over and over again, in the city’s co-working spaces and cafés, where she has met and become friends with people from completely different backgrounds. One such moment occurre

Dubai: For someone whose default setting is ‘restless’, it can be surprising to find a place that removes the need to be anywhere else. For 39-year-old Russian expat Olga Limanova, that place was Dubai. “I came here in 2016 and the thought of leaving has never even crossed my mind. That surprised m

Dubai: Ever since she was 18 years old, Lebanese-Canadian national Fatima El Baba has known what she wants – and has done her best to fight for it. Take moving to Dubai, for instance. Born and raised in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Fatima knew she wanted to study in the UAE. She applied to the American Un

Dubai: A single cotton T-shirt takes about 2,700 litres of water to make. It is a statistic that always works when 17-year-old Arhan Harchandani and Aarush Vij introduce anyone to their sustainability initiative, Rewoven. The two Dubai College students have been running the initiative for two years

Dubai: More than 195 nationalities live within Dubai’s borders – and every single person has a different perspective on the same thing. Belgian national Inge Van Belle, 51, who is co-founder of Herculean Alliance, an employee engagement and corporate team-building company based in Belgium and Dubai

Dubai: For 29 years of her life, Sri Lankan expat Sasha Sequeira has watched and learned. Born in the UAE, the marketing and communications executive, has seen Dubai move at an unmatched pace, surrounded by people focused on growing and building. The learning curve, she says, has been steep. “The p

Dubai: British entrepreneur, advisor and strategist Faheem Chaudhry, 36, has lived and travelled all over the world. He was born in London, UK, grew up and studied in South Africa, met and married his wife Asmaa, with whom he travelled through South America, then lived in Paris, France, and returne

Dubai: In 2012, Canadian national Natasha Shaikh became a mother for the first time – and she had an idea for a business that would propel her out of her comfort zone into something she’d never done before. But was it worth the risk? Shaikh, who has a business and marketing background, said: “After