View from Dubai: With a two-week breather, the city is living fully, but planning carefully
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Dubai does not do panic. That is not the Dubai way. But Dubai does do hope. Cautiously.
So after the news dropped – two weeks of a ceasefire – there has been tangible relief. Fourteen days of no sirens, no alerts, no holding your breath every time your phone buzzes, the city didn’t throw a parade. It did something far more Dubai – it exhaled.
Slowly. Deeply. And then immediately started walking the road back to normality.
Thing is, we are truly collateral in the current equation. It is not our fight and having no say in the way events unfold is worrying, a cause for discomfort.
Yet we are good at perseverance.
Drive down Sheikh Zayed Road right now. The lights are still glittering. The cafes in JBR are full. The valet lines at the Dubai Mall are, as always, a test of patience On the surface, it is business as usual.
But sit down with a resident and you will hear the same thing: “Thank God. But let’s see.”
That is the Dubai mantra of this moment. There is relief. People are sleeping through the night for the first time in weeks. There is a lightness in the air – not the giddy lightness of victory, but the quiet lightness of a...