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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm a former long term Dubai expat. It's not common to see the swatsika in Dubai and Indian cleaners definitely wouldn't place it over the door of a non-Indian resident's apartment. But I'm intrigued by other aspects of your story.

Based on what you tell us, you can't be resident expats as you normally live in another country and are only in Dubai for a few months. This means you do not have a resident visa, which means you can't have a normal rental contract. Which, in turn, means you are in a short term hotel-apartment style building. I'm not even sure if it's possible to have more than a month to month type arrangement because you can't have a proper resident visa that allows you to sign local rental contracts.

Some of the details of what you told us don't quite click and others are too convenient, you do have two options.

Option 1 is to speak to the hotel-apartment management and ask to be moved to a different floor or building. Most of these hotel apartments are owned by hotel/real estate companies that own multiple properties and moving you to another unit shouldn't be a problem, especially during the slow summer months when vacancies must be high.

Option 2 is to speak to your husband's employer, who must be behind putting you up in Dubai (in the summer? intriguing) and have them sort it out. If your husband is connected to a UAE-based company or office, which is the only reason I can see you being temporarily housed in Dubai while husband is elsewhere, they will have a PRO (public relations official), an Arab speaker, typically Lebanese or Syrian or Egyptian, whose job is effectively to sort out these kinds of situations.

Like others, I'm also unclear on how the smoker knew you were Jewish. You weren't putting up the mezuzah or traveling with something like a menorah at this time of year? Dubai is pretty cosmopolitan and there's growing relationships between the UAE and Israel in the last few years, including travel between the two countries. But even so. I lived in Dubai for years, knew Jewish American expats who had no problems living there for a few years or traveling there. But no one advertised it either. [/quote]

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