Yasmin, 25 — Escort in Dubai

Samarkand silk — that’s the family joke about my hair, black and heavy and older than most countries. I’m Yasmin, 25, Uzbek: a slim 165 cm strung with quiet grace, eyes that do the first half of every conversation for me.

Central Asia raises its daughters on two disciplines — hospitality and mystery — and I never chose between them. As your hostess I’m all warmth: attentive, unhurried, genuinely interested in the man behind the watch. As company I keep a little something back, because evenings are better with a horizon. Couples are welcome guests; I balance a shared evening with the tact of someone raised at long family tables.

I receive privately in Deira, old Dubai suiting old souls, and hotel visits across the city are simple to arrange.

An hour of my time opens from 2400 AED. The Silk Road ran through my hometown for a thousand years — travellers still stop for the same reason. Come find out what it was.