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….