What I Cover

I write about technology in the Gulf — local software and startups, and the slow, consequential shift of public services onto screens and out of queues.

My Background

I trained and worked as an engineer before I started writing, so I tend to ask how a thing actually works before I ask what it promises.

Journalistic Ethics

I explain plainly and resist the hype cycle. A technology is only as good as what it does for the people using it, and that is the test I apply.