Author: Eric Sylvers, Shayeza Walid

Nathalie Mroue wasn’t immediately alarmed when she heard the boom of air-defence rockets intercepting Iranian missiles over Dubai this past weekend. The Lebanese-born co-founder of luxury brand consultancy Maison Pyramide had lived through conflict in her home country.But later witnessing first-hand a high-altitude interception, followed by plumes of smoke rising from missile debris that struck the five-star Fairmont hotel in Dubai’s tony Palm neighbourhood, changed her calculus — as it did for many others in the United Arab Emirates.“The first night was very scary because it was so unknown and unexpected for the UAE,” said Mroue, whose company works with…