I first arrived in the United Arab Emirates in 2012 from my native Egypt. I had just covered the tumultuous events of the 2011 Egyptian revolution from the Reuters Cairo bureau, fresh with the emotional upheaval a reporter goes through when writing about seismic events at home. Initially I lived in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi. But like many UAE expats, I found myself regularly making the one-hour drive from Abu Dhabi to the thriving tourism hub of Dubai, for both work and leisure. For most outsiders, Dubai is associated with extreme wealth, skyscrapers and - more recently - the Dubai chocolate bar, a delicious mix of pistachio, kunafa and milk chocolate that has gone viral. The city grew on me, and I finally moved here in 2017. Home to the world's tallest building - the mo...
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