Dubai has been trying to prove to the rest of the Arab world that there is life after oil, and that in fact it’s a better life. The good news is there is room for...

This is an Arab city living in a unique moment in history.

We don’t have qualified people to speak. They don’t have experts and commentators. There’s no political discourse in this city, and it showed.

It’s become an embarrassment of a sort. [Having elections] was not something the UAE wanted to be behind in. They see themselves as leaders. They also found out you can’t have a global city and...