Writing Portfolio
Selected features and interviews:
2024 Film Review: Hollywoodgate (IDA)
2024 The Secret Garden: Interview with Nour Ouayda (Tribe)
2023 Dirty, Difficult Dangerous by Wissam Charaf - A Tragedy of Three Populations in One Country (Tribe)
2022 The Sky Oscillates between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences - Interview with Nadim Choufi (Tribe)
2022 Memory Box: Interview with Joan Hadjithomas (Tribe)
2022 Yesterday Was Like This in Dubai (Film Program Essay for Jameel Arts Centre)
2021 Incomplete History of UAE Cinemas, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Alserkal.online)
2021 Good Vibrations: Living It Up In Sharjah Hotels (Building Sharjah)
2018 TV 70: Francesco Vezzoli Watches Rai) at Fondazione Prada (Jadaliyya)
2018 Interview with Asma Al Zarooni (Brownbook Issue 68)
2017 Dubai Architecture on Film (Dubai Architectural Stories. 2017, published with Artmap Issue 26)
2015 Dubai Design District - “Making Sense of d3” (dubaidesigndistrict.com)
2014 Remembering Al Nasr Leisureland and Al Nasr Cinema (Uncommon Guide: Dubai)
2014 Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood, an alternative creative hub? (Vision)
2012 The Empty Quarter (Oasis Magazine)
2012 Papering the Town - Paper ephemera amassed during Art Week in Dubai (Harper's Bazaar Art Arabia)
2011 Judge a Book by its Cover - Framing the UAE (Open Skies - April)
Selected writings from my blog, The Culturist:
2022 Sight and Sound Poll 2022
2022 IDFA 2022 Roundup
2022 Interview Andrew Hon, creator of Dancer on Film
2022 Interview with Nezar Andary, Artistic Director of Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival
2021 Biennale Cinema 2021 - Roundup of the 78th Venice International Film Festival
2021 Modern Times - Club Expat in Dubai
2021 Interview with A. S. Hamrah about his book The Earth Dies Streaming
2021 Berlinale 2021 Roundup - Home Edition
2020 Dubai Cinema Chronicles Post Pandemic Lockdown
2020 IFFR 2020 Roundup
2020 Culture Bubble in the UAE
2019 RIP Dubai International Film Festival
2019 Samir Farid Collection at the Akkasah Center for Photography, NYU Abu Dhabi
2017 Only Men Go to the Grave - Interview with Abdualla Al Kaabi
2014 A very short lived exhibition: Cairo. Open city – New Testimonies From an Ongoing Revolution
2013 Interview with Conor Purcell, creator and editor of We Are Here magazine
2010 City of Life by Ali F. Mostafa