{"id":108711,"date":"2025-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/emaar-founders-ambitions-in-the-spotlight\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:00:00","slug":"emaar-founders-ambitions-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/2025\/10\/22\/emaar-founders-ambitions-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Emaar founder\u2019s ambitions in the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>DFM-listed <\/strong><strong>Emaar<\/strong><strong> Development\u2019s founder\u2019s global ambitions got ink from the international press<\/strong>, with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/25c68ef2-196d-44ee-9cbb-e2e16eb43af9\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial Times<\/a> spotlighting Mohamed Alabbar\u2019s efforts to lead a new phase of outward investment mirroring the UAE\u2019s growing global reach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Alabbar all around: <\/strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Currently, Emaar\u2019s development footprint extends to <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/5fd832d2-38ed-4b19-bf7a-52e455b50248\/emaar-opens-aed-682.9-mn-resort-in-egypt%25e2%2580%2599s-north-coast\" rel=\"noopener\">Egypt<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">, Madagascar, and India. Alabbar also founded Eagle Hills in 2014, another real estate-focused development and investment firm which has been making forays into <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/06df1b61-544f-4228-b070-4f514c9d66f0\/abu-dhabi%25e2%2580%2599s-eagle-hills-and-coima-launch-fund-to-restore-venice%25e2%2580%2599s-grand-h%25c3%25b4tel-des-bains\" rel=\"noopener\">Italy<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">, <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/e943c498-97af-4973-abaf-9d135e0b1583\/%253cmark%253eeagle-hills%253c%2Fmark%253e-to-build-usd-1.5-bn-baghdad-golf-course\" rel=\"noopener\">Iraq<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">, <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/8b5f2684-98c9-4d9e-8b5e-9a31baa24a1c\/eagle-hills-gets-a-shot-in-the-arm-with-ratification-of-the-uae%25e2%2580%2599s-planned-investments-in-montenegro-following-controversy\" rel=\"noopener\">Montenegro<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">, <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/68f674d9-4a3b-4d24-b15e-d5cdcaccadc5\/jared-kushner-and-mohamed-alabbar%25e2%2580%2599s-belgrade-project-is-under-the-spotlight\" rel=\"noopener\">Serbia<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">, and <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/6c622cff-377e-46ec-a6fb-f517c0b8a2eb\/this-morning:%253cmark%253e-eagle-hills%253c%2Fmark%253e-to-invest-usd-6-bn-in-georgia-%2B-iraqi-stock-exchange-to-join-adx%25e2%2580%2599s-tabadul\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"> \u2014 albeit sometimes facing criticism from local communities, the likes of which put a stop to its ambitions <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/19300912-82ec-45ce-9223-4bf2ce9e6ac1\/budapest-pulls-plug-on%253cmark%253e-eagle-hills%253c%2Fmark%253e%25e2%2580%2599-mini-dubai-project\" rel=\"noopener\">in Hungary<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">. Elsewhere, he also owns a majority stake in Americana alongside KSA\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, chairs Zand Bank, and launched e-commerce firm Noon.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabbar said that his focus is on countries often \u201coverlooked by Western investors\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1551],"tags":[184,7,98,41],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-108711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uae-in-the-news","tag-emaar","tag-enterpriseam-uae","tag-real-estate","tag-uae-in-the-news","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"dd1a5c70-df2d-40f1-a09c-cf5832521e69","order":"12","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/3\/1378.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Emaar founder\u2019s ambitions in the spotlight","related_issue":[108690],"teaser":"Alabbar said that his focus is on countries often \u201coverlooked by Western investors\u201d","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2025\/10\/.5547e945-e07c-45fe-9a1c-1c9952bee9db.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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