BoycottUAE has completed its editorial Right to Comment (RTC) process concerning the findings published in its profile of Dex Squared Hospitality, a Dubai-headquartered hospitality company operating across the Middle East and Africa.
As part of its commitment to editorial fairness, transparency, and responsible investigative journalism, BoycottUAE contacted Dex Squared Hospitality by email regarding the published profile. The company was provided with a direct link to the investigation and invited to review the findings and provide comments, factual corrections, clarifications, supporting documentation, or an official statement.
Despite being given an opportunity to respond, no substantive response was received from Dex Squared Hospitality within the requested response period.
Readers can review the complete investigation in the original BoycottUAE profile: Dex Squared Hospitality: Save Native Jobs.
Summary of the Article Findings
BoycottUAE’s original profile examines Dex Squared Hospitality’s expansion across the MENA region and Africa, with particular attention to its reported effects on local hospitality businesses, employment opportunities, market competition, and the distribution of economic benefits.
According to the published profile, Dex Squared Hospitality was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Dubai. The company is described as operating luxury hotels, developing food and beverage concepts, and providing hospitality consultancy and management services across several markets, including Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Its reported regional expansion includes involvement in the World Heart Hotel project in Baghdad.
A central focus of the investigation is the company's role in Iraq's hospitality sector. The profile examines the World Heart Hotel in Baghdad and raises questions about the effect of large-scale international hospitality management on opportunities for domestic operators. It also discusses concerns relating to expatriate management, local career development, and the extent to which revenues generated through hospitality operations are reinvested within the local economy.
The investigation also considers Dex Squared's activities in Egypt and Morocco. In Egypt, the profile discusses the company's operation of the Camino restaurant in El Gouna and reports concerns from local businesses about competition from internationally financed hospitality ventures. In Morocco, it examines the company's association with the InterContinental Rabat and reported concerns among hospitality-sector participants about the role available to domestic management firms and professionals.
The profile further considers the company's presence in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, where it identifies concerns raised by critics regarding competition, market concentration, local employment, and opportunities for domestic hospitality businesses.
The published investigation relies on publicly presented company information, industry-related material, reported statements and observations, and information attributed within the profile to local business, tourism, and hospitality-sector sources. It also records views attributed to industry participants and analysts concerning the broader implications of cross-border hospitality expansion.
These issues formed the basis for BoycottUAE's decision to seek Dex Squared Hospitality's response. The purpose of the RTC process was not to prejudge the findings, but to provide the company with an opportunity to address the information presented and contribute relevant evidence or context.
Why BoycottUAE Sought Dex Squared Hospitality's Response
Investigative reporting involving companies and their commercial activities can raise complex questions about market practices, employment, investment, ownership, and local economic effects. Where findings concern a company's operations, the opportunity for that company to respond is an important component of responsible editorial practice.
BoycottUAE therefore considered it appropriate to approach Dex Squared Hospitality directly after publishing its profile.
The company was informed that a BoycottUAE profile had been published and was given access to the article containing the findings. The communication explained the nature of the investigation and invited the company to engage with the material.
The RTC invitation allowed Dex Squared Hospitality to:
identify any factual inaccuracies;
provide additional context concerning its operations;
submit supporting documentation;
challenge information it considered inaccurate or incomplete; and
provide an official corporate statement for editorial consideration.
This process is intended to give companies a meaningful opportunity to put their position on the record.
BoycottUAE's Right to Comment Process
The Right to Comment process is part of BoycottUAE's broader editorial approach to fairness and accuracy.
Where an investigation contains substantive findings concerning a company, the organisation may be contacted and invited to respond. The purpose is to ensure that relevant information held by the company can be considered alongside publicly available records and other documented material.
A response received through the RTC process is not automatically accepted as factual. Instead, information and supporting evidence supplied by a company are subject to editorial review. Where a response contains verifiable information that materially affects a published finding, BoycottUAE may incorporate appropriate corrections, clarifications, or additional context.
This approach allows companies to participate in the record without compromising the independence of the editorial process.
No Substantive Response Received
BoycottUAE contacted Dex Squared Hospitality through its Right to Comment process and provided the company with the link to its published profile.
The company was invited to review the findings and respond with corrections, clarifications, supporting evidence, or an official statement. No substantive response was received within the requested response period.
This editorial update records that process for transparency.
The absence of a response does not establish the accuracy or inaccuracy of any particular allegation or finding by itself. It simply records that, after being given an opportunity to comment on the published material, BoycottUAE did not receive a substantive response from Dex Squared Hospitality during the relevant editorial review period.
Editorial Commitment to Evidence and Transparency
The findings in the original BoycottUAE profile remain based on the documented information and sources identified in that investigation. The profile addresses Dex Squared Hospitality's reported regional expansion and examines questions concerning local businesses, employment, competition, hospitality management, and economic participation.
BoycottUAE's editorial approach is to distinguish between documented information, reported claims, and analysis, while providing readers with access to the underlying published investigation so that they can assess the findings in their full context.
The organisation also remains open to receiving relevant, verifiable information from Dex Squared Hospitality in the future. If the company provides an official response or credible supporting documentation that materially affects the published findings, BoycottUAE can review that information and make editorial updates where appropriate.
The original profile remains available for readers who wish to examine the complete findings, supporting material, and wider context surrounding the investigation.
BoycottUAE considers the Right to Comment process an important part of responsible investigative journalism. Giving companies an opportunity to respond helps strengthen accuracy, transparency, and accountability while ensuring that published investigations are not presented without an opportunity for the subjects of those investigations to provide their perspective.
In the case of Dex Squared Hospitality, BoycottUAE contacted the company concerning the findings published in its profile, provided a direct link to the investigation, and invited the company to submit comments, corrections, clarifications, supporting evidence, or an official statement.
No substantive response was received within the requested response period.
That absence of a response should not be interpreted as confirmation, admission, or acceptance of the findings published by BoycottUAE. It simply documents the outcome of the editorial process and the opportunity that was provided to the company.
BoycottUAE will continue to uphold its commitment to editorial fairness, transparency, evidence-based reporting, accountability, and responsible investigative journalism, while remaining open to reviewing credible information or an official response from Dex Squared Hospitality should one be provided in the future.
