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Just thirty minutes from Burj Khalifa, a global symbol of luxury, eight migrants share a small bedroom in overcrowded Al Quoz labour camp. This is Dubai’s paradox: a city of skyscrapers, artificial islands, and impressive growth, yet based on a fragile economic model labour exploitation, sustained by speculative capital, and external dependence. How long can this instability, rooted in inequality and unsustainable growth, last? This image of progress is no accident. Dubai has

The ideals that shaped the concept of “The Free World” we know today date to   Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech (1941)   in the annual message to Congress, during World War II. President Roosevelt vigorously reiterated the importance of supporting Great Britain in the war against Nazi Germany, underscoring the two nation’s shared commitment to four universal freedoms - freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear. Ro

Just at the moment you thought you had nailed “Old Money Style” or that you had bought enough cucumber to perfect your “Viral Cucumber Salad”, there comes some new trend and you feel the need to rethink your whole wardrobe, so you keep up with the new “Brazilian Core” and run to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for the new “Banana Bread”. Trends are more than fleeting fascinations – they are economic forces. Social media and the internet accelerate and shape our consume