DUBAI, 3 March 2004 — Dubai will hold an annual real estate exhibition and conference in collaboration with the Saudi Research and Marketing Group and sponsored by Eqtisadiah business daily, a sister publication of Arab News. The aim is to provide a forum where new ideas are discussed and investors share their experience of marketing real estate in the Arab world. The conference, under the patronage of Sheikh Mohammed ibn Rashid Al-Maktoum, Dubai’s minister of defense, will start on May 11 and is expected to be the largest in its kind in the Arab World.