Whilst the Internet and our ideas remain borderless, we are not! and thus so many of my posts will reflect my influences from Saudi Arabia (my country of birth) and the United Kingdom (my adopted country where I’ve resided almost all my life)…

I am currently finalising an interdisciplinary PhD in international politics and law. Outside the academic realm, I worked for the United Nations in Geneva, but bureaucracy got the best of me! O’ yes, I’ve also spent the last two years teaching British public policy at a top ten UK university, and consulting companies and governments on how to deal with Internet governance and regulatory issues.

Whilst genrally I have very little interest in sports outside Formula One and Rugby, I play the sport of kings – polo (but wish I have more time to spend on the saddle). In another life, I would have been a fashion designer and toxinated myself around art. As I find it to be one of the most meaningfull expressions we have as humans, especially I find in fighting discrimination of all kinds!

I love food and cooking! I developed my skills, and supplemented my thirst for fine cuisine through extensive travel and exposure to different cultures. I have a refined appreciation of food that drives the expression of my own culinary vision. This vision can be found at the popular ‘What’s Up Jeddah?’ magazine were you can find my monthly publications.

This page will eventually reflect some of what I read and influenced by current affairs… This is my public “Scrap page!” of comments… So in short, this is what I read, and what interests me, and hopefully interest you!