The Emirati vice president is best known as the owner of a top English soccer team. Behind the scenes, he has been described as the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars.

Iggy Lemcke, 2, feels the music as she dances during the Concert in the Park at the newly opened Cleo Murdoch Park earlier this month. The community series, which is put on by the City of Flagstaff, ...