(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Oh golly, oh gosh! I nearly missed it. Happy Birthday, Fake Plastic Souks! Ten years ago this month, I was ...

Birdkill written, I needed a cover image for the book. The title was simple enough, the original short story was called 'Martin...

When I hammered the best (IMHO) bits of the first two years of this blog into a book for a self-publishing workshop thingy I was giving...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Gulf News' Bassma Al Jandaly reports today on the case of an Indian university lecturer who has...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I have finished writing Shemlan - A Deadly Tragedy . This is a good thing. The book really sort of finis...

I'm doing quite a lot of 'how to'ing recently, am't I? Don't worry, this isn't a book post... This advice does...

delete (Photo credit: M i x y ) You can only begin to imagine the look on my face when I pootled over to the blog yesterday to ...

Birthday Cake (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's the Arab Media Forum 2012 today. So what? I hear you mutter. Well, this silly lit...

I'm over in Australia today rabbiting away about my remarkable tally of rejections from the British publishing industry on Ozzie Sci...

Image via Wikipedia I have long been meaning to post this but for one reason or another the timing has never seemed quite propitious. Today...

I actually have this as a t-shirt and I'm very fond of it, too... I was asked by my co-host on the weekly UnWired radio programme, Rama...

WAM Abu Dhabi, 25 April 2011 (WAM) -- UAE Attorney General Salim Saeed Kubaish has stated that a group of UAE citizens were arrested on or...

And you thought that every restaurateur in the Middle East learned a clear lesson from the awful public relations disaster that was triggere...

Image via Wikipedia Watching Sky News last night, I was infuriated to see, once again, a random person interviewed and billed on the strapli...

Image via Wikipedia Look, 'doing' social media does not consist of sending invitations to bloggers to attend media events.  Many blo...

Image by tricky ™ via Flickr I'm not asking any deep philosophical question or setting out to give you a Paulo Coelho answer to the ri...

Image via Wikipedia I have known Sara for years. A former colleague and current friend, she is far too talented for her own good and manages...

 The recent breakfast cereal incident reminded me of this piece, which ran in Arabian Business, as well as on the blog, a while back. I t...

Image by George via Flickr  To be perfectly honest, I'd rather have nothing to say about this at all, but I don't see how I can let...

Image by bunky's pickle via Flickr Another Arab Media Forum already! It hardly seems a year since the last one. It's now become tra...