The United Arab Emirate of Dubai is forever making headlines for its hyperbolic endeavors: the world’s tallest skyscraper, the first indoor ski slope in the Middle East, the region’s largest mall. In this desert city — one of the fastest-growing in the world, where 88% of the population is foreign-born — the conventional wisdom has long held that the more gilded, the more encrusted, the more bedazzled, the more luxurious. But all that is about to change with the opening of the Dorchester’s Lana hotel.
In 2012, Mahdi Amjad had a modern vision for his adopted country….
