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- 10 top tips from a professional presenter in Dubai
- 9 sweet trends for dessert lovers
- An interview with Jamal Khashoggi
- Can the sun power the Middle East’s future?
- From Naples with love – bespoke suits in Abu Dhabi
- How do you charge for copywriting?
- Making Italian suits sing
- Of malls and sunglasses
- Ravi’s dash of flavor spices up Dubai food scene
- The link between leadership and public speaking
- What makes the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature tick?
Copywriter in Dubai
- Going simple: The 1 trick to great business copywriting
- How do you charge for copywriting?
- The price is right at Art Dubai
- Why listening is more important than writing for copywriters
- Why this ugly ad is really effective
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Business & Ent
- Al Madani threads its way through UAE history
- An interview with Anan Fakhreddin of #Damas
- Barakat’s business model bears fruit
- Book N Bean: Where prose meets a cuppa.
- Can the sun power the Middle East’s future?
- CeeCode designs a success story
- El Nezami: Making a Dubai stopover on the way to success
- From Naples with love – bespoke suits in Abu Dhabi
- Healthcare and pharma opportunities in the GCC
- Heavy lifting starts to pay off for Gold’s Gym
- How to make your website work for you
- Idea Spice brings flavor to UAE marketing scene
- Man’oushe Street bakes its way to success
- Rainbow: Capturing UAE taste buds is ticket to success
- Ravi’s dash of flavor spices up Dubai food scene
- SellAnyCar.com drives through online success
- The link between leadership and public speaking
- The One takes over the world, one room at a time
CEO Interviews
- Al Madani threads its way through UAE history
- Barakat’s business model bears fruit
- Book N Bean: Where prose meets a cuppa.
- CeeCode designs a success story
- El Nezami: Making a Dubai stopover on the way to success
- Heavy lifting starts to pay off for Gold’s Gym
- Idea Spice brings flavor to UAE marketing scene
- Man’oushe Street bakes its way to success
- Rainbow: Capturing UAE taste buds is ticket to success
- Ravi’s dash of flavor spices up Dubai food scene
- SellAnyCar.com drives through online success
- The One takes over the world, one room at a time
Media & Advertising
- An interview with Jamal Khashoggi
- Geekfest Abu Dhabi – same same but very different
- How to make your website work for you
- Idea Spice brings flavor to UAE marketing scene
- Why listening is more important than writing for copywriters
- Why this ugly ad is really effective
Technology & Digital
Arts & Culture
- An interview with Jamal Khashoggi
- Contemporary arts in the Arab World: A Virtual Majlis
- Remembering Naujib Mahfouz at ADFF
- Sharjah’s little Biennial goes haywire- Director fired for artwork selection
- The Parisian maven of calligraphy
- The price is right at Art Dubai
- Vacheron Constantin and the inner cercle
- Watching people watching you
- What makes the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature tick?
Fashion
- A little bit of Breguet in my life…
- Al Madani threads its way through UAE history
- Bulging with festivity
- CeeCode designs a success story
- El Nezami: Making a Dubai stopover on the way to success
- From Naples with love – bespoke suits in Abu Dhabi
- Making Italian suits sing
- Of malls and sunglasses
- Throwing away the rulebook
- Vacheron Constantin and the inner cercle
Health & Wellness
Life & Style
- A bereft little Souk (fake, but not plastic)
- A festival of literature and co-operation (Emirates Business 24/7)
- A little bit of Breguet in my life…
- An evening of magic courtesy the Dubai Concert Comittee – Feb 7th 2010
- An interview with Anan Fakhreddin of #Damas
- Art – expression or economics? (Emirates Biz 24/7)
- Art reveals the technology and physique link (Emirates Business 24/7)
- Book N Bean: Where prose meets a cuppa.
- Creativity, creation and the Dubai Lit Fest
- Dubai and the United Arab Emirates: 2010 and beyond for city states in flux
- Geekfest Pi – Shared Space and Creative Unorganisation
- Heavy lifting starts to pay off for Gold’s Gym
- It’s all in the 8 count to salsa – written for Gulf News’ 4Men November 25th 2008
- Mahim Junction Comes to Dubai: Can Satirizing Bollywood Ever Work?
- Music for the eyes @ the Jamjar – were you there?
- Of haunted palaces. And of women, and how to net them
- Of malls and sunglasses
- Remembering Naujib Mahfouz at ADFF
- Schnitzel Schnitzel!
- Seduction at the Shelter
- Sharjah’s little Biennial goes haywire- Director fired for artwork selection
- Slipping the chains: From hereon, I’m writing for a living
- The Guardian covers Art Dubai!
- The Metro and the evolution of culture (Khaleej Times)
- The One takes over the world, one room at a time
- The Parisian maven of calligraphy
- The price is right at Art Dubai
- Vacheron Constantin and the inner cercle
- Watching people watching you
- Within each of us…
- Writers: Social creatures or reclusive soloists? (Emirates Business 24/7)
Food
- 9 sweet trends for dessert lovers
- Barakat’s business model bears fruit
- Book N Bean: Where prose meets a cuppa.
- Chocolate: Top trends for the year
- Man’oushe Street bakes its way to success
- Rainbow: Capturing UAE taste buds is ticket to success
- Ravi’s dash of flavor spices up Dubai food scene
Political & Current Affairs
- A tale of two amendments – what the 18th means for Pakistan
- An interview with Jamal Khashoggi
- Art reveals the technology and physique link (Emirates Business 24/7)
- Brexit: What leaving the EU means for Dubai Brits
- Creativity, creation and the Dubai Lit Fest
- Dubai – Ideas worth spreading (KT, Aug 5th 2010)
- Dubai and the United Arab Emirates: 2010 and beyond for city states in flux
- Dubai, sex, and rampant generalisations
- I speak for my multilingual city – Gulf News, May 30th 2010
- Logan’s unfortunate assault
- Obama: The King’s Speech of May 19th
- Oslo’s many stories
- Sharjah’s little Biennial goes haywire- Director fired for artwork selection
- The Metro and the evolution of culture (Khaleej Times)
- The name won’t be Khan
- Wael Ghonim: A reluctant revolutionary
- Wailing over Veiling: Written for the Huffington Post July25th 09
- Within each of us…
Articles
- 9 sweet trends for dessert lovers
- A little bit of Breguet in my life…
- Al Madani threads its way through UAE history
- An interview with Anan Fakhreddin of #Damas
- An interview with Jamal Khashoggi
- Barakat’s business model bears fruit
- Book N Bean: Where prose meets a cuppa.
- Bulging with festivity
- Can the sun power the Middle East’s future?
- CeeCode designs a success story
- Chocolate: Top trends for the year
- Contemporary arts in the Arab World: A Virtual Majlis
- El Nezami: Making a Dubai stopover on the way to success
- From Naples with love – bespoke suits in Abu Dhabi
- Geekfest Abu Dhabi – same same but very different
- Healthcare and pharma opportunities in the GCC
- Heavy lifting starts to pay off for Gold’s Gym
- How to make your website work for you
- Idea Spice brings flavor to UAE marketing scene
- Logan’s unfortunate assault
- Man’oushe Street bakes its way to success
- Obama: The King’s Speech of May 19th
- Of malls and sunglasses
- Oslo’s many stories
- Rainbow: Capturing UAE taste buds is ticket to success
- Ravi’s dash of flavor spices up Dubai food scene
- Remembering Naujib Mahfouz at ADFF
- SellAnyCar.com drives through online success
- The name won’t be Khan
- The One takes over the world, one room at a time
- The Parisian maven of calligraphy
- Throwing away the rulebook
- Vacheron Constantin and the inner cercle
- Wael Ghonim: A reluctant revolutionary
- Watching people watching you
- What makes the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature tick?
Blog
- 10 top tips from a professional presenter in Dubai
- A few words with Cherien Dabis of “Amreeka” fame
- A foray into the future
- A visual journey by Jalal Abuthina through Al Badaa, District 333
- Absolut -ely right
- Abu Dhabi – time flows like driven water
- An evening of poetry and stories – Feb 4th 2010
- Art Bus. Do the Art Bus. Why are you so artsy?
- Autotuning the dog of war…
- Beirut & ArabNet- a first day recap
- Brexit: What leaving the EU means for Dubai Brits
- Coca Cola’s Happiness Booths in the UAE: What’s not to like?
- Days two and three – ArabNet, Beirut and Bashar
- Different strokes for different folks (KT, Aug 14th 2010)
- Dubai Design District #D3 and #FFWD – a website is born
- Eid down in Old Town
- Entrepreneurs in the City
- Food explorations at Global Village
- Freelance writing for video scripts that make you want to board a plane
- From Palestine, with love
- Geekfest Abu Dhabi – same same but very different
- Hunger. Starvation. Anna Hazare. Inspiration & Art
- I am 28. I am no longer ubermensch
- I haven’t written this but…
- In which I somehow managed to accuse Business Breakfast’s Malcolm of being a luddite…
- Kraft-ing an event: Inspirational or Inconsequential?
- Life on the Fringe
- Making Italian suits sing
- My audio take on the floods, that’s #PkFloods. Column to follow
- One of the Best Copywriters in Dubai Shares Experience with Crowds
- Oslo’s many stories
- Perspectives bending over perspectives – a Suhoor at the new Shelter
- Presenter Dubai: Espressos at the UAE Barista Championship ’14
- Quintessentially Quint – a new community mag hits shelves
- Racial profiling in airports: not a simple case of black & white – Global Comment Jan 30th 2010
- Reasoning, scepticism and the burden of proof
- Severely brilliant and annonymous
- Shindagah market closed down
- So you’ve heard of the Cirque del Soleil. How about the Cirque du Souq?
- Stop motion animation in a 3 Act Circus
- The Lochal Archade turns one year old! Fun game reviews and leather vs. wax
- The man behind the labyrinths…
- The rise of the fanboys
- When Portobello Road hits Dubai… flea markets, Flea4Charity, Voice4Charity.
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- 9 sweet trends for dessert lovers
- A bereft little Souk (fake, but not plastic)
- A festival of literature and co-operation (Emirates Business 24/7)
- A few words with Cherien Dabis of “Amreeka” fame
- A foray into the future
- A little bit of Breguet in my life…
- A visual journey by Jalal Abuthina through Al Badaa, District 333
- Absolut -ely right
- Abu Dhabi – time flows like driven water
- An evening of magic courtesy the Dubai Concert Comittee – Feb 7th 2010
- An evening of poetry and stories – Feb 4th 2010
- An interview with Anan Fakhreddin of #Damas
- An interview with Jamal Khashoggi
- Art – expression or economics? (Emirates Biz 24/7)
- Art Bus. Do the Art Bus. Why are you so artsy?
- Art reveals the technology and physique link (Emirates Business 24/7)
- Autotuning the dog of war…
- Barakat’s business model bears fruit
- Beirut & ArabNet- a first day recap
- Book N Bean: Where prose meets a cuppa.
- Bulging with festivity
- Chocolate: Top trends for the year
- Coca Cola’s Happiness Booths in the UAE: What’s not to like?
- Contemporary arts in the Arab World: A Virtual Majlis
- Creativity, creation and the Dubai Lit Fest
- Days two and three – ArabNet, Beirut and Bashar
- Different strokes for different folks (KT, Aug 14th 2010)
- Dubai – Ideas worth spreading (KT, Aug 5th 2010)
- Dubai and the United Arab Emirates: 2010 and beyond for city states in flux
- Dubai Design District #D3 and #FFWD – a website is born
- Dubai, sex, and rampant generalisations
- Eid down in Old Town
- El Nezami: Making a Dubai stopover on the way to success
- Entrepreneurs in the City
- Food explorations at Global Village
- Freelance writing for video scripts that make you want to board a plane
- From Naples with love – bespoke suits in Abu Dhabi
- From Palestine, with love
- Geekfest Abu Dhabi – same same but very different
- Geekfest Pi – Shared Space and Creative Unorganisation
- How to make your website work for you
- Hunger. Starvation. Anna Hazare. Inspiration & Art
- I am 28. I am no longer ubermensch
- I haven’t written this but…
- I speak for my multilingual city – Gulf News, May 30th 2010
- In which I somehow managed to accuse Business Breakfast’s Malcolm of being a luddite…
- It’s all in the 8 count to salsa – written for Gulf News’ 4Men November 25th 2008
- Kraft-ing an event: Inspirational or Inconsequential?
- Life on the Fringe
- Logan’s unfortunate assault
- Mahim Junction Comes to Dubai: Can Satirizing Bollywood Ever Work?
- Man’oushe Street bakes its way to success
- Music for the eyes @ the Jamjar – were you there?
- My audio take on the floods, that’s #PkFloods. Column to follow
- Obama: The King’s Speech of May 19th
- Of haunted palaces. And of women, and how to net them
- Of malls and sunglasses
- One of the Best Copywriters in Dubai Shares Experience with Crowds
- Oslo’s many stories
- Perspectives bending over perspectives – a Suhoor at the new Shelter
- Presenter Dubai: Espressos at the UAE Barista Championship ’14
- Quintessentially Quint – a new community mag hits shelves
- Racial profiling in airports: not a simple case of black & white – Global Comment Jan 30th 2010
- Reasoning, scepticism and the burden of proof
- Remembering Naujib Mahfouz at ADFF
- Schnitzel Schnitzel!
- Seduction at the Shelter
- Severely brilliant and annonymous
- Sharjah’s little Biennial goes haywire- Director fired for artwork selection
- Shindagah market closed down
- Slipping the chains: From hereon, I’m writing for a living
- So you’ve heard of the Cirque del Soleil. How about the Cirque du Souq?
- Stop motion animation in a 3 Act Circus
- The Guardian covers Art Dubai!
- The Lochal Archade turns one year old! Fun game reviews and leather vs. wax
- The man behind the labyrinths…
- The Metro and the evolution of culture (Khaleej Times)
- The name won’t be Khan
- The One takes over the world, one room at a time
- The rise of the fanboys
- Wael Ghonim: A reluctant revolutionary
- Wailing over Veiling: Written for the Huffington Post July25th 09
- Watching people watching you
- When Portobello Road hits Dubai… flea markets, Flea4Charity, Voice4Charity.
- Within each of us…
- Writers: Social creatures or reclusive soloists? (Emirates Business 24/7)