George Bundock

[Maktoum Bin Mohammed @MaktoumMohammed]

في ذكرى وفاة الشيخ راشد بن سعيد آل مكتوم -رحمه الله-، نستذكر مآثر مؤسس دبي الحديثة، والقائد الذي أحب شعبه، والرجل الذي بنى أولى مشاريع دبي الكبرى وكتب سطور حكايتها الفريدة. سيبقى إرثه خالداً في قلوبنا وفي كل تفاصيل دبي، نسأل الله أن يجعل الجنة مثواه ومستقرّه.

[Mona Alhmoudi، منى الحمودي @monaalhmoudi]

الإمارات وقيادتها مدرسة في:
الأخلاق 🇦🇪
القيادة 🇦🇪
الحكمة🇦🇪
الهيبة🇦🇪
الإنسانية🇦🇪
الوفاء🇦🇪
التواضع🇦🇪
حُسن التعامل🇦🇪
صناعة المواقف🇦🇪

[HH Sheikh Mohammed @HHShkMohd]

رحم الله الشيخ أحمد بن راشد آل مكتوم..

رحمك الله يا أخي … حللت عند رب كريم عظيم .. تغيب عن أعيننا ولا تغيب عن دعائنا وقلوبنا يا أحمد.

أسكنك الله فسيح جنانه .. وألهمنا وأحبابك الصبر والسلوان.. وإنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون .

[George Bundock @georgebundockuk]

Only in UAE, would never see this in the West 🇦🇪💪

[Books @Booksey]

Can you imagine being at the mall on a Saturday and you see the Vice President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

I couldn’t imagine experiencing this anywhere else in the world

Just look at that Dubai number plate #1

[Books @Booksey]

I’ve lived in the biggest states in the US and even visited many countries.

Very rarely if ever will you see a nations leaders especially in the USA, Europe and Asia.

However, being in Dubai for a week I’ve seen the top of the Royal Family from almost the whole UAE.

This told me alot about safety, especially seeing Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum eating at a restaurant with his friends.

I will never leave, this is now home for me and safety is the main reason.

[Rauda Altenaiji @FormulaRauda]

FYI

[UAEGOV @UAEmediaoffice]

محمد بن راشد: أريد أن تكون حكومة دولة #الإمارات أفضل حكومة في العالم 🇦🇪

[بندر ..حول العالم🌎 @Bathaksaudi]

🚨 لندن صارت أخطر مدينه سياحيه على الخليجيين

تخيل هذا عند بوابة فندق شهير

[Cllr Jaymey McIvor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @McivorJaymey]

Asking for a friend 💅

[سلطان الوشاحي @SAlwashahi]

Dubai doesn’t just win , it defines what winning looks like

[Mr. @l_lAE]

منظر طبيعي في الإمارات 🇦🇪
رئيس الدولة والقيادة بين الناس، بدون حواجز 🤍

لكن هالمنظر الطبيعي عندنا، أثار سؤال موجع عند بعض الشعوب المقهورة:

نحن وين قيادتنا؟!

[Avery Chauhan @averyx99]

The Burj Al Arab is not a 7 star hotel.

There is no such thing.

Forbes tops out at 5 stars. AAA doesn't even use stars. Michelin gives hotels keys, and the maximum is 3.

So where did the 7 stars come from?

One British journalist.

In 1999 she toured the hotel before it opened. She was so overwhelmed she wrote that 5 stars couldn't do it justice. It had to be 7.

Except, nobody has ever found the article.

Not the name. Not the publication. Not a single record in any media database. The most repeated claim in hospitality history may never have been written down.

And Jumeirah, the group that owns the hotel? They never once claimed the 7 stars.

They also never denied them.

That silence became the greatest free marketing campaign a hotel has ever received.

• A $1 billion build
• 1,790 square metres of 24 carat gold leaf
• 86,500 hand fixed Swarovski crystals
• A 6 to 1 staff to guest ratio
• Its own private island

The hotel was never designed to make its money back. The brief from Dubai's ruler to the architects was a single line: create an identifiable link between the world and the UAE.

The Burj Al Arab isn't a hotel.

It's a flag.

In 1999 Dubai was a fuel stop. Today it's one of the most visited cities on earth. One building did the heavy lifting.

The lesson is uncomfortable for anyone who works in marketing:

You don't own your brand. The market does.

The Burj Al Arab has been 5 stars for 27 years.

But ask anyone on the street.

They'll tell you it's the only 7 star in the world.

[Ruslan Khairullin @Rus_Khairullin]

Three years in Dubai has taught me something nobody ever wrote on a Western opinion page.

The whole “you need democracy to be free” thing is a marketing campaign.

What you actually need is a government that does its job. Streets that work. A bank that doesn’t treat you like a suspect for earning money. Schools that teach. Hospitals that heal. Police that show up. Borders that filter. A passport that opens doors instead of closing them.

The West sold the world on the idea that voting every 4 years for two interchangeable parties was the highest form of human freedom. Meanwhile the country they called authoritarian built the cleanest, safest, most efficient city most of these critics will never see in person.

Freedom isn’t a ballot. It’s the ability to walk home at 1 AM, raise your kids in peace, run a business without getting punished for it, and live a life the people in charge don’t actively try to make harder.

Dubai has more of that than London, Paris, Berlin, San Francisco, and Toronto combined right now. The voters in those cities can vote all they want. They’ve been voting themselves into a slower decline for a decade.

I didn’t move here for the weather. I moved here because this was the first place I lived where the country was actually on my side. 🇦🇪

[🇦🇪 HGS @Sajwani]

"I just want to say His Highness is a warrior, he is a very courageous man ," says President Trump in his meeting with UAE President HH Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Thank you @POTUS for praising my President

[أحمد شريف العامري @AhmedSharif]

The leader of the new Middle East has so much confidence he doesn’t need to speak in a loud tone.

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

BBC: “What was your screen time?”

Student: “Nine hours.”

BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?”

Student: “Stare at a wall.”

[Mr Blonde @Kearney3Mr]

Savage

[Grace @graceyldn]

Also conveniently just in time for Pitbull at BST Hyde Park

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

For the love of god, make it stop 😩