Edge Group on taking the UAE from buyer to partner

Al Bannai on Edge’s latest “great milestone”: Defense conglomerate Edge Group is moving the UAE into a more active partnership role by forming an Abu Dhabi-based JV with Italian shipbuilding giant Fincantieri, Chairman Faisal Al Bannai said in an interview with CNBC (watch, runtime: 6:25). “The days of being just a seller to the UAE are over,” Al Bannai said, and discussed the mutual benefit of the JV to both Edge and Fincantieri by “combining the strengths” of both entities.

Who is John Harris?The Telegraph is out with a feature on the unheralded British architect who had a big say in the blueprint of the Dubai we know today, as early as the 1960s. The descriptive story tells of how even then, there was a clear goal to take the city “from obscure port to global hub.”