Talent Among Us!

One of the things that makes Dubai such a vibrant community is the amount of talent that is living here. When I say talent, in this case anyway, I am talking about cultural talent. My Canadian sensibility leads me to listen to music that is being produced here in the UAE as a piece of [...]

Where is the New UAE Media?

Teaching in a College of Communication and Media Sciences I listen, painfully, to people talking about new media, convergent media, digital media and the list goes on. And at some point in the conversation the issue of quality is brought up. The the issue of funding is tossed into the mix. The conversation ends with [...]

An Amazing Emirati Woman

Maryam Darwish’s story of leadership and dreams. There are a lot of stereotypes out there about Arab Woman. We in the West see what we want to see. And many Arabs perpetrate the stereotypes they have been raised into like, women raise the kids men go out and work. But every now and then you [...]

Media, Culture and Economics my return.

Last night I had the pleasure of speaking to Mr. Michael-Ryan Fletchall of Experience Media Studios in Abu Dhabi. We spoke about the 1st United Arab emirates based action film called Abdulla Omar and the Lost City of Sand. (the link to the audio is below) Why this conversation was very interesting to me was [...]

The Gapingvoid thought of the day!

If you have not had a chance to look at www.gapingvoid.com in a while do go. Hugh as an artist, pr guy, tech guy, writer, machine… has hit the nail of culture right on the head and I suspect others, like myself trapped in the Ivory Tower, need to re-think how we are seeing the [...]