Interesting.
When I was in the Air Force I was sent to UAE for about a month. We stayed in the UAE Armed Forces Officers Club in Abu Dahbi. It was redonk.
The thing I found most surprising was how western it was, and this was around 2005. We had to wear pants, closed toe shoes and collared shirts. They said it was to be respectful to the locals, but the locals wore basketball jerseys, sandals and baggy shorts. Some wore the traditional Kandura and Abaya, but most people did not. Many of the women were dressed casually, skirts, dresses, tight jeans. We went to the club pretty much every night. A lot of women came to the clubs in Abaya's, but in the club they changed into...more revealing clothing. When they left the Abaya's went back on.
As a side note. They had hacking game consoles down to a science. They had every Xbox game known on burned disks. We only found this out, because a buddy of mine used a cheap converter and ended up frying his power supply. The shop we went to gave him a power supply with a voltage switch.