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coverstory_cover story 26/02/2015 10:23 Page 3 Dubai continues to expand M ohammad Abdullah runs Dubai’s giant TECOM media cluster. Talking exclusively to Euromedia, he says that the spectacular growth enjoyed by the city over the past few years is far from slowing down. Dubai’s list of achievements includes the 70,000 jobs created across 11 business communities. Some 22,000 people work in the media sector best known for its ‘Media City’, ‘Studio City’ and more recently established ‘International Media Production Zone’. “MBC/Stargate opened their new facility almost two years ago, and that growth steadily continues in terms of jobs and space that we are expanding into. This growth continues along the same trend that we have enjoyed for the past three years or so, and especially in terms of on-line digital activity. For local production and production facilities that also is busy. The unfortunate political problems in certain parts of the region, notably Syria, Egypt and the Lebanon, also means that people seek a secure and safe place to operate from. We are noticing increased interest and activity coming because of these uncertainties.” “Even those production houses which have chosen to stay where they are have o [