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Days before Christmas in a land near the Two Holy Places, the Lebanese haircutter at Diva’s Men’s Salon leers at passing Filipinas and snickers with his Algerian colleague while above them on the newly rebranded Dubai One Martha Stewart stridently constructs the best blueberry tart in Arabic-subtitle English. Blocks away, Choithram’s aisles ring with carols as construction workers eye Butterball turkeys and bags of whole cranberries with mystified wonder.