Reports today say the completion of the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building, will be delayed by about three months. It’s now slated to open in December 2009 instead of…
Susan notes: I met the beautiful and amazing Ann Njeri at the Initiatives of Change Tools for Change conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February 2009. Although still a relatively…
Like Neda Agha Soltan (the young Iranian women who was shot and died in the streets of Tehran in post-election unrest in 2009), and Rachel Corrie (a Jewish peace activist…
Susan notes: I met the beautiful and amazing Ann Njeri at the Initiatives of Change Tools for Change conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February 2009. Although still a relatively…
A fellow Canadian reminded me this morning that today, July 1, is Canada Day. Living here in Dubai, where it’s 45 Celsius and God-knows-how-humid at the moment, I guess I…
I started college when I was 29. The university degree (a Bachelor of Arts) with which I’d graduated a decade earlier hadn’t been of much practical value when it came…
Susan notes: My friend Yang-May Ooi recently started running. She asked her Fusion View blog readers to share their experiences around how they had begun to run. So I created…
TEDxDubai organiser Giorgio asked me to write a post on “what TED means to you and what you are expecting from TEDx Dubai,” before the first Dubai TEDx conference in…
Susan notes: Three years ago, on June 20, 2009, Neda Agha Soltan died in revolutionary Tehran. The following day, I watched in horror as her dying moments were replayed for the world…
Susan notes: I met the beautiful and amazing Ann Njeri at the Initiatives of Change Tools for Change conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February 2009. Although still a relatively…