Across the globe, spies gather in inconspicuous dens where they meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. This week, Intelligence Online explores Zuma restaurant in Abu Dhabi, where princes and spymasters, and their foreign guests, discuss and make deals over tasty Japanese finger food.
After a morning meeting on 4 March at the presidential palace in Qasr al-Shati, it was in a private room at Japanese restaurant Zuma, a twenty-minute drive away, that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and UAE president Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (MbZ) celebrated the warming of ties between both countries. Under the previous Italian governments
