The History Project II
The UAE’s 40th anniversary had been looming over us for about 6 months; we knew we had to provide readers, viewers and listeners something unique that contributed to understanding the UAE’s very short albeit accelerated history. Soon enough, 40@40 was born. 40@40 was the (almost impossible) brain-child of our Multimedia Editor Karen Davies and students [...]
PlanetSolar
So this was my 3rd year covering the world future energy summit, and i knew the multimedia team had to do something slightly different than the typical “Abu Dhabi needs green energy” talking head interview. Luckily I had read one of the thousands of press releases on the summit and found out that the worlds [...]
The History Project
Over a year ago, The National created a team whose task was to investigate the events leading up to the formation of the United Arab Emirates. It was a massive undertaking that involved passionate reporters, multimedia producers, photo and magazine editors and last but not least Emirati photo researchers. We were forced to dig deep [...]
Cycling4Gaza
It’s come to the point where no calendar year is complete unless I’ve decided to take part is some gruelling physical challenge that raises money for a sustainable cause. One of my best friends in London, a Palestinian-Libyan film-maker Tamara Ben Halim co-founded an initiative known as Cycling4Gaza. Cycling4Gaza is an independent, youth-led initiative that [...]
The UAE’s exotic animal trade
For as long as I can remember, the UAE has forever had a massive problem with importing and selling exotic animals into this country. I was about 4 years old when my family and I first moved here. A few days after moving into our home we were terrorized by an aggressive baboon hissing and [...]
The Manny Pacquiao Story
I admit it, I was never a boxing fan, to be honest I didn’t know much about it until this recent project was dumped onto our hard drives 2 weeks ago. Mike Young (photographer) traveled to the town of Bagiuo along with Chuck Culpepper (sports reporter). They spent a fascinating week up in the mountains [...]
A Little History of the World
I get insanely inspired everytime I walk into Kinokuniya at Dubai Mall, I spend hours in there, clumsily carrying a handful of books that I manage to pick up, walking through various rows, flipping through pages, reading book reviews and analyzing book covers. As always, I end up with a pile of books I never [...]
And so she says…
Blogging is a very scary territory to me. As super cheesy as it sounds, I really do express myself visually, through photographs or film. Despite the crap that is out there, the internet just seems to be filled with some REALLY great writers who truly know what they are blogging about. I plan to take [...]
