Gig me.
I have always said that culture is our story and that story is formed where we live. So UAE culture is as much the Emirati as it is the expat who calls the UAE home. That being said how do we promote our local culture? By creating an environment for creativity! One such environment is [...]
Dubai Music
Every so often you turn on the radio, my show of course, and you discover something that you had no idea existed. In this case Paul Kelly of Triplew joined me to introduce some homegrown Dubai musical talent. We went from hip-hop to fusion to rock and we could have probably kept going. What I find [...]
Language Matters?
It is interesting being an expat in the UAE. But it is also odd how easy it is to live without actually engaging with the UAE culture. A big piece of that culture is the language. So many expats living in the UAE and so few making any real effort to learn Arabic, I include [...]
Middle East Music
Triplew.me‘s Paul Kelly joins me every other week on Nightline every other week to talk music, photography and film that is independently produced in the middle east. I never cease to be amazed by what Paul comes up with. What is clear to me, more than ever, is that the UAE and other countries in the [...]
Student Radio!
There are a lot of ways to create and manage student media today. And to be honest students, high school students, are very media savvy today. But what about students not pretending to do radio but actually doing it for real? How often to we hear students on our local commercial or national radio networks [...]
Sometimes The Old Way Just Works.
It is amazing how simple things like shopping for fish have become an exercise on sanitization. The experience has become a hands off exercise where we point at fish that is packed on ice and wait for the sales associate to pull on gloves and grab the critter for us. Not that I don’t like [...]
Get Motivated!
In September I will be taking on the challenge of being the 1st chair of the Department of Mass Communication at the Canadian University of Dubai. The 1st question people ask is why am I leaving Zayed University after 12 years? Zayed University has been a great place to work and a fantastic personal innovation [...]
This is the alternative MBA
What happens when you get 3 very successful entrepreneurs into a room to talk about their success? There is a lot to be learned from the business world today and I contend you can learn most of it by listening to what those who are in it are saying. Of course trying your hand at [...]
Learn about Media by Doing?
Media Literacy is a term that we have been hearing for well over 20 years. And of course there are groups and organizations in Canada, the USA and Australia who are doing some amazing work. The question I am always left asking is how do we engage the youth the primary targets of media literacy? [...]
A Dubai State of Mind
I have lived in Dubai for 11 years and I have seen many changes. There has been exceptional growth and there has been an exceptional reset. But there is no question in my mind that Dubai is a very interesting case study of success. Of course the term success is open to many different definitions. And of [...]
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