Dubai Insiders: Ali Chaaban And Lana Qatramiz On Their Lives In Dubai

by Barbara Yakimchuk

Dubai Insiders: Ali Chaaban And Lana Qatramiz On Their Lives In Dubai

11 Nov 2025

This is the fourth episode of the Dubai Insiders podcast — and today, everything is doubled: the places, the insights, and the fun. Why? Because this episode features two guests who also happen to be best friends. And saying “meet them” wouldn’t be quite right — you already know them well.

So, welcome back our long-time Dubai insiders: Ali Chaaban, the Kuwaiti-born, Dubai-based Lebanese artist and Creative Director at YKONE, and Lana Qatramiz — stylist, creative consultant, and the founder of LAS CLUB. Together, we explore their Dubai — through friendship, creativity, and everything in between.

If we were to vote for the deepest episode of the podcast so far, this one would definitely take the crown. It is all about two very different personalities who, for some reason, just fit together perfectly.

We start by talking about their favourite areas, move through food, and somehow end up with style, music and art. And as a little bonus, woven throughout are their thoughts on Dubai’s diversity, overspending and saving habits, social anxiety and ghosting — topics that make this conversation not only entertaining but genuinely thought-provoking.

Here are four things to discover in our podcast with Ali and Lana:

Where to go for a date — and why their choices couldn’t be more different.
How Dubai’s music scene could use a shake-up.
Their take on style — and why less is more.
Their biggest UAE and non-UAE inspirations.

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Come for the deep conversations — stay for the fun jokes and the cool takes on style, music, and food.

by Barbara Yakimchuk