Usually attracted by hefty salaries and low taxes, they tend to spend their evenings - and boozy weekend brunches - at Doha's various five-star hotels.
In Iraq, there will be no delivery of flowers or long lazy brunches on this Mother's Day, and there are 10, 000 mothers serving in the U.S. military there.
"Most of the institutionalised activity seemed to revolve around shopping malls or going for drinks or brunches, " says co-founder Ravi Bhusari, a Canadian-Indian who moved to Dubai in 2006.