It is my lot to have to deal, because in some ways I live a complex life, with a number of banking institutions on a regular basis. In s...

"Dubai has nothing. No culture, no history, no character. It has no heart, no spirit, no traditions... It's not a real city, it...

(Photo credit: IsaacMao ) Saturday the 8th March will see me once again pretending to be an author at the LitFest. As well as my usual ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The UAE's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority is set to end its 'My number, my identity' cam...

Melchite Hirmologion written in Syriac Sertâ book script (11th century, St. Catherine's Monastery, Mt. Sinai. (Photo credit: Wikipedi...

Image via Wikipedia The Emirates ID Card was launched in 2008. Now, in 2012, we are to see the application process for the card imp...

Image by Daniel Wilder via Flickr I often speak at conferences, workshops and things and rarely miss the opportunity to laud Emirates Airl...

Image via Wikipedia Flying into Lalaland, it’s always nice to have the last few minutes of the film you’re watching chopped off by the playi...

I'd just like to say that the Emirates' Identity Card website thingy appears to be working and I've just used it to book two app...

A rather jolly little Facebook group has started to protest Emirates' smashing new policy of revoking business class lounge access for S...

You saw it here first. This is Emirates' new Terminal 3 building, opening on October 14th and featuring lots of lights and steel and thi...

Emirates has got a new toy and this is a picture of it. I guarantee this will be the picture the papers run tomorrow for no better reason th...

I'm sorry, three posts in a day (even if two ARE very silly) is too much, but I just HAD to share this deliciously silly PR shot from th...

It’s a constant fight to avoid sounding like an old fart. You know: “I can remember when that was all sand!” and all that. You drive past th...

I didn't see any announcements in the papers about this one. And I don't think Emirates announced it. Getting to the airport today, ...

It’s such a typical Middle East story that I’m not going to bore you with the gory details. Suffice to say that I tried to book tickets for ...

The bloke in front is a serial recliner and has knocked the bottle on my food tray over twice. The bloke next to me is a hairy-armed expansi...

Route 66 in the UAE is the Dubai-Al Ain road. I'm not sure it's quite what Chuck Berry had in mind, but I guess you have to make do,...

OK. In my humble view, this is a little slice of Press Release Brilliance. Emirates is now flying daily to Venice. So they've put out a ...