UAE, March 31 -- There is a moment every night, just before I fall asleep, when the headlines catch up with me. The images from the Middle East. The words "escalation", "tensions", "uncertainty". It feels like the whole region is holding its breath.

In the middle of that storm, my two sons are living and working in Dubai. I am travelling in and out of the UAE for my own work. And I notice something the outside world often refuses to see. While the region experiences crisis, life in Dubai continues with a strange, almost defiant normality. Not because people are blind or numb, but because they have learned to live with uncertainty rather than collapse under it. Because they trust their leadership.

Leadership in Uncertain Times I am not n...