Across the globe, spies gather in inconspicuous dens, where they meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. Every Friday, Intelligence Online offers its readers a glimpse of such places in its new series "Spy Way of Life".
The Oud Metha road, in Dubai's residential neighbourhood of the same name, is lined with national clubs, establishment that serve for cultural promotion and as venues for the world's economic and diplomatic elite to meet and talk, as well as being community hubs for Dubai's patchwork of diasporas connected to various private schools.
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