This article was written following the missile invasion in Dubai during the Iran conflict. The Grit Code: How to Navigate Uncertainty and Come Out Stronger It’s been a sad two weeks for me to watch the city and the region that I’ve called home for 17 years shaken to its core — not by anything born here, but by the tremors of war and politics that have rippled across borders and landed on our doorstep. I have watched Dubai transform from a desert into one of the world's most e

Living in the Middle East for sixteen years has given me countless gifts, but few as profound as the occasional encounters with Bedouins who, even in our modern world, maintain a lifestyle true to their tradition as desert people. These moments have been windows into a philosophy of life forged in one of Earth's harshest environments, and they carry lessons our comfortable, convenience-driven world desperately needs. One particular morning stands out. I had taken my nephew, Z