Luxury hospitality and real estate lead mentions of UAE in the foreign press: Bloomberg looks at two new Dubai hotels, Lana and One&Only One Za’abeel, that are shifting traveler focus from beachfront to city luxury with celebrity chefs, infinity pools, and iconic architecture. Meanwhile, the Financial Times spotlights Head of the Sotheby brand in Dubai, George Azar, who is “shaking up” London’s luxury market a year after taking over UK Sotheby’s International Realty, as he plans to bring “the whole Dubai model to London.”

The UAE’s minerals play is also getting attention: The UAE and Saudi Arabia are the new “big kids in town” in the minerals space, as the countries look to transition away from oil and secure a place in the energy transition, experts tell Foreign Policy.

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