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War, trade and Jacky Panjabi’s 40-year bet on Dubai

The first thing that made Jacky Panjabi look twice at Dubai was the price of an air conditioner. It was 1985, an unpromising time to arrive in the emirate. The Iran-Iraq war was in its fifth year. Baghdad had been attacking Iranian shipping since 1984 while Tehran was mining the Strait of Hormuz and using […]

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13 August 2026|1 min read|AGBI
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