Michael Jackson

February 19, 2011

Bahrain Again

Since the uprising in Egypt, I’ve been getting e-mails from people asking me if I’m okay, if I’m safe with everything going on the Middle East. Safety in the Middle East is just a question of where you are standing at a given moment. Sadly, I have never known the Middle East not to have Continue reading

Abu Dhabi, Arabs, bahrain, Dubai, Middle East

Bahrain, Michael Jackson, UAE
July 8, 2009

Attending Michael Jackson’s Memorial Service

Today several people stopped me on the street to ask me how Michael Jackson’s memorial service was. It took me a while to catch on that they weren’t all psychic. I was wearing the gold wrist band that everyone in LA knows means you had a ticket to the event. I did indeed, thanks to Continue reading

Arts and Culture

Michael Jackson, Music

About Alia

Alia Yunis is a writer, journalist and filmmaker. She is currently producing and directing “The Golden Harvest,” a feature length documentary about how olive oil has shaped the Mediterranean culture, cuisine and history for 6,000 years, through war and peace. Her debut novel, The Night Counter (Random House) has been critically acclaimed by the Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and several other publications. It was also chosen as a top summer read by the Chicago Tribune and Boston Phoenix. The Boston Globe has called it “wonderfully imaginative…poignant, hilarious.” Alia was born in Chicago and grew up in the U.S., Greece, and the Middle East. She has worked as a filmmaker and journalist in several cities, especially Los Angeles. Her fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including The Robert Olen Butler Best Short Stories collection, and her non-fiction work includes articles for The Los Angeles Times, Saveur, SportsTravel Magazine, and Aramco World. She currently teaches film at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi.

Michael Jackson

Bahrain Again

Attending Michael Jackson’s Memorial Service