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Wandering off the Path.

Students, professionals, education they all seem to be geared around the idea that we have some idea what we want to do and that we can study today for the path of tomorrow. Over and over again I have told my students that what we learn at school is secondary to the process. Sure there [...]

Just start! The Future of the UAE

I had the opportunity to speak with Nayla Al Khaja, CEO of D-Seven, about her career as a film producer. Confident? Totally. Driven? Totally. Proud? Absolutely. So why are more women not looking at her and just going for it? Nayla started at HCT in the UAE and learned her film craft at Ryerson in [...]

A little food radio?

I cannot stop listening and watching the Jamie Oliver TEDPrize speech. All I keep asking is what can I do? Sadly, as Oliver says in his opening sentence, I am not so sure people know where to start or if they can see where how! For 3 months I have been saying, “there must be [...]

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 [...]

du CEO Osman Sultan where are we going?

Yesterday I had the pleasure of listening to Mr. Osman Sultan, the ceo of du int he UAE, talk about his vision of how a content delivery provider can and will play a role in the future of Arab media. The real issues comes down to what is media today and what will media be [...]

I was not at TED this year, lived TED via the video feed.

I love the description of www.ted.com as something like the Sundance Festival for geeks and ideas! This year I was not in the audience at TED, and how I missed the buzz! As much as I could I watched the live feed of the show and tweeted my observations, #jamesed_me. Even though I lived only [...]

Talk, listen and wonder was it worth it, UAE conversations

What is the price of an opinion? Mishaal Al Gergawi has come on my radio show and spends his day at the Dubai Cultural Authority, he is a switched on Emirati no doubt. It is always interesting to read what a young Emirati has to say about Dubai, here is his article from the Gulf [...]

Find the motivation $$$

Stuart Flemming of enviroserve.ae spoke to me about how we can motivate companies to be more environmentally friendly! A conversation with Stuart Flemming of Enviroserve.ae about motivating environmental change! Flemming has just launched enviroAudits that make it clear how much you can save by making simple changes, it is all in black and white! Once [...]

Listen to Kids MORE!

Last night on Nightline I spoke to 6 kids, aged 10-12, about everything from who their idols are to how to solve the financial issues confronting us today. Listen to the conversation it was refreshing! What did I learn from the conversation? 1. that things often are as simple as they seem 2. perception is [...]

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 [...]

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