Deira Diary

“Major Barbara”, currently showing at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, is not a must-see performance. However it has some very good performances,...

More than 100 pictures from over 80 artists, this show has a lot of material and some of it is actually rather good. However attending the...

I sat down not knowing quite what to expect from a gig at the Union Chapel in Highbury & Islington by  Lau , a band I had only heard ...

“The Church of Man, love, is such a holy place to be,” sung the boy David when he was on a very different planet to the rest of us mere e...

I have been in Jordan for just over 24 hours now. My first proper visit here since 1999. I don’t count the total of 16 hours in Queen Ali...

"I am the state; the state is moi," so, apparently, said Louis 14th. The state in Saudi Arabia is orientated toward the royal f...

I hired a bedu driver from the the Batta’ area of Riyadh to take me 500kms to Qateef and Dammam on the Gulf. I haggled hard to ensure tha...