As most my readers know I’m in Dubai at the time being so I recently I have been looking for Emirati bloggers I found a couple but for a person that has a hard time reading Arabic I was looking for an English Emirati blogger and I found one that really interested me.
So I decided to contact this blog writer and ask a couple of questions as an interview of a sort and make an interview page this way bloggers get to be known and help bloggers learn something, I myself took the answers as an advice for me to improve my blog and somehow maybe there’s a new blogger like myself that would benefit and might knew how to reach readers and followers I guess.
A very long introduction so let’s start with the interview. .
My Name is Ebrahim G. Al Theeb; I live in the United Arab Emirates. I’m in my mid 20’s. Got a simple character, easy to understand and always to the point!
The hardest part is to write about yourself, but I’ll try..
-Birthday on: 26th of May
-Studied in
- American University of Sharjah
- Higher Colleges of technology
- Graduated with Higher Diploma
- Graduated with bachelor degree
- Studying Master of Business administration (MBA)
Hobbies:
- Swimming
- Movies & series (history make me think!!)
- Surfing & Kayaking
Facebook: Ebrahim G. Al Theeb
1. What inspired you to start a blog?
I had my domain “BinGhanem.com” very long time ago, 98’s or 97’s, but never did anything to the website, only used the email “something@binghanem.com“, anyway… When I was almost going to graduate for my bachelor, I thought it would be great idea to have a blog just to keep in-touch with my friends and teachers, to let them know the latest updates, and actually that is the point of my blog, just to write about my stuff.
2. Why did you choose writing in English instead of Arabic?
to be honest, I’m very slow writing in Arabic and all my computer’s and laptop’s don’t have Arabic keyboard, I always make mistakes when I handwrite numbers in Arabic and I’m not really happy about that, also, I think its easier to express feelings in English, such as saying”Meh, Bleh..Etc” people might differ, but its only me and I use English even when I speak to people, some words just come in English without noticing
3. Where do you get most of your ideas?
I usually write about stuff that I’m doing or that I really care about, I don’t surf the internet to look for idea’s because my blog is not informative one, it’s a personal and it should stay that way, even though sometimes I think to change my approach, but I don’t think that is what I want.
4. How old where you when you first started writing?
Hmm 25? Wasn’t that long time ago?
5. How long have you been writing?
My first post was on June 2009 so it’s not that long ago, but my blog is not the only place I write in.
6. What is your favorite thing you’ve written?
I’m actually proud of everything I’ve written, nothing specific, some topics are more interesting than others, I might like when I write about my personal thoughts such as “The challenge” post, some people might not get it, or understand the point of these articles, but it means a lot to me, because it’s something I believe in.
I also like to write about health and what to eat and how to have a great diet, but many people don’t really care about that so, I try to minimize that subject.
7. What do you think makes good writing?
Writing about something you believe in and understand, redundant topics are useless and not attractive; having a fresh new topic might be the best way to approach writing. look who is your visitors and what they want to read about. There are many plug-ins that help you to keep track of your visitors and what they view the most on your blog, and we all must have to keep track of these information.
8. What advice would you give to someone that wants to start a blog?
I have some questions to whoever want to start blogging, do you like writing ? do you have the time to update your blog at least once a week? can you handle criticizes from people ? if your answer is yes for all the questions, then I guess you are ready to start your own blog!
9. What do you believe makes a good blog?
Quality topics, pictures if available supports the case “to make it attractive” and a good style and colors that don’t hurt people’s eyes lol
10. Have you ever thought about advertising your blog? if not, how did you let people know your blog is out there?
Of course, blogging is more like having a business, there are many blogs floating on the internet, I started with my friends, and then I start to be careful choosing tags to my posts, because this is how people going to find your blog when they Google a certain topic and also asking other people to blogroll
Hope you guys enjoyed this as much as I have.
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