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At 11:47 PM, a missile strikes Dubai International Airport.

Glass shatters. Alarms scream. Lights go dark.

And in the chaos of Terminal 2, two strangers find each other.

Karim Haddad — a Lebanese photojournalist who has covered wars across the Middle East. Calm under pressure. Emotionally guarded. A man who has spent years documenting the world's pain from behind a lens, keeping himself safely on the other side of everything.

Claire Dubois — a French architect flying home to Paris after finishing a project in the Gulf. Intelligent, perceptive, and completely unprepared for the world Karim has always lived in.

With all flights canceled and the airport locked down, they are trapped together inside a damaged terminal for one long, extraordinary night.

They move through amber-lit corridors and empty shops. They share emergency blankets and bitter coffee. They talk — really talk — about Beirut and Paris, about loss and loneliness, about the lives they thought they were living and the lives they actually wanted.

And as the night deepens and danger rises, something between them does too.

But when dawn arrives, it brings military evacuations, boarding passes, and the airport's brutal, indifferent logic: European destinations first. Middle Eastern destinations second.

Paris. Or Beirut.

A flight home. Or a choice that changes everything.

When the Lights Went Out in Dubai is a cinematic, emotionally immersive romantic thriller — a story about what happens when a single night strips away everything carefully constructed and reveals, in the wreckage, something worth choosing.

Perfect for fans of: Vince Flynn, Kristin Hannah, Nicholas Sparks, and David Baldacci.

"Some buildings are designed not for rigidity, but for the ability to bear change."

One night. One strike. One decision that cannot be undone.