You could say Nathalie Shariat had an early start in her career, practicing the gift of gab since she could crawl. Her parents even tried to pay Nathalie ten Dirhams to stop talking for an hour. Luckily she failed and learned to parlay her loquaciousness (one who loves to talk) into a successful radio presenter on Dubai 92. People now pay her for what comes naturally, entertaining. On the one hand, she’s zealous of certain things: cleanliness, timeliness, and great music. On the other, she’s jealous of people who can play La Bamba on their guitar better and prepare a tastier Waldorf salad. On a more interesting note, Nathalie shares the same hair gene with cousin IT, and could have made a killing as a Pantene hair model. But just as she was signing up for her first hair show she inexplicably started mouthing the words, “But I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo. What the hell am I doin’ here? I don’t belong here.” So she ran, ran so far away until she found her true calling, hosting the Middays with Nats on Dubai 92. She is so good at what she does, she has even won an award for it. It was for the best non-breakfast show in the Middle East, at the very first Middle Eastern Radio Awards. They say people who own parrots have the most successful careers as pirates and radio hosts; Nathalie is talking proof (of the latter, the former has yet to be confirmed).
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Movie Of The Week – The Artist
Starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo and John Goodman. The Artist is a silent movie that has been winning all the awards at the moment and is set to win a few more at this year’s Oscars. Set in Hollywood 1927. As silent movie star George... (read more)
Avalanche City – Our New Life Above The Ground
David Baxter is an Auckland-based musician known as, one-man band Avalanche City. His debut release under that moniker, is a lovely, folk-pop album, filled to the brim with romantic idealism… featuring Love Love Love, one of the most infectious... (read more)
Mini Concert Monday, January 30th, 2012
Hello and welcome to this week’s Mini Concert Monday, featuring one of the headlining acts for this year’s Skywards Dubai International Jazz Festival. The Jazz festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, at its new home at Dubai... (read more)
Movie Of The Week – The Descendants
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles... (read more)
Oregon-born and Nashville-based artist Mat Kearney returns with his third album, Young Love. Filled with heavy grooves, spoken word, sing-able choruses and acoustic pop, layered over hip-hop and urban beats. A catchy, feel-good album. Young Love... (read more)
Mini Concert Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Hello and welcome to your Mini Concert Monday. This week I’ve got Ryan Adams lined-up for you: an American singer-songwriter from North Carolina, who is absolutely brilliant to watch live. So we kick it off live at the Abbey Road Studios in... (read more)
Clive Owen and Catherine Keener star in this dark drama about the damaging effects an online sexual predator has on a family. Owen and Keener play the parents of a 14-year-old girl who has been victimized by an adult who gained her trust posing... (read more)
The Canadian quartet are back with their self-produced seventh album: Here and Now. You already know what it sounds like… it sounds like Nickelback, through and through. The riffs are very catchy, repetitive and formulaic. “Here And Now” is... (read more)
Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer and Naomi Watts, this is the story of J. Edgar Hoover. As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and... (read more)
David Guetta – Nothing But The Beat
French house-music DJ and producer David Guetta, who’s been filling up the dance floor over the past few years, is back with a new album…Nothing but the beat. Glossy beats, lots of synths and monster club anthems. Hip-hop and R&B vocals... (read more)

























