20 December 2018: On today's Making Tracks, we're joined by an educator with over 3 decades of experience in Dubai, Muscat and Mumbai.

Her simple philosophy - children deserve to discover their worth and passion and grow into confident young adults.

She's also a freelance writer and an adventure enthusiast - she accompanied a group of 10 students to Antarctica as part of Sir Robert Swan's expedition in 2014.

Nargish Khambatta, Principal and CEO of GEMS Modern Academy and Cluster Lead for GEMS.

We got our listener Ramez for this week's Takeover Radio and this Wednesday, he chose to play He Didn't Have to Be by Brad Paisley.

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19 December 2018: It's our paper review and we are joined by Majed Al Suwaidi, who heads Dubai Media City, Dubai Studio City and Dubai Production City. He's an advocate for creating local content across the region.

Dubai Studio City recently launched CineMENA, a platform that will help content creators in enhancing their skills through an annual agenda of events, including workshops, masterclasses and training sessions by globally renowned industry influencers, actors and filmmakers.

The Smart Dubai 2021 strategy is an ambitious roadmap to prepare Dubai to embrace the future and emerge as a world-leading city by 2021.

Snapchat rolling out UAE-produced content on its show channel, Snap Shows. Snap has partnered with 20 partners within the Middle East, including Lovin Dubai, MBC Group, Vice Arabia, Goal.com, Gulf News and Rotana Media Group.

Emarati cartoon Freej to screen on Japanese TV, created by Mohammed Saeed Hareb.

Dubai's transport authority has unveiled its Sky Pod project, a futuristic mobility system which will require less power and infrastructure to operate.

DXB gets fleet of Chevrolet Bolt EVs.

19 December 2018: We're talking about supporting all things local - products, businesses, entertainment.

We speak to Holly Bennie, co-founder of The Real Mums of Dubai Facebook page. She has a great initiative called #SBS - small business Saturday to support mums, and Reim El Houni, CEO of Ti22 Films - award wining production company.

We got our listener Ramez for this week's Takeover Radio and this Tuesday, he chose to play Hello by Lionel Richie.

Want to take part in Tom's Takeover Radio? Text "TOR" or "TAKEOVER" using the free Dubai Eye messenger app.

18 December 2018: It's our paper review and we are joined by Sameer Purain, a lawyer, an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. Moved to Dubai, fell in love with food, now has a restaurant here!

It's called Kim's Singapore Seafood in Dubai's Al Seef by MERAAS.

The research firm's latest data showed that Dubai’s international arrivals increased by 6.2 per cent to nearly 17 million, and it’s the only city in the Middle East and Africa that showed up in the top ten most visited globally.

Has your favourite neighborhood eatery closed down? Sameer tells us the likely reason why.

Sameer tells us what he thinks of a big fat ridiculously opulent Indian wedding. And Mourinho is angry. Again. What is it this time?

Sameer tells us about a chocolate-covered street in Germany.

18 December 2018: December 18 was the day in 1973 when the General Assembly approved Arabic as an official UN language. 290 million people speak it. It's the UAE's official language - so why don't many of us make an effort to learn it?

We spoke to Nadia Wehbe who runs Baby Arabia, which offers language lessons for kids aged 1 to years, and Fabio d'Emilio, Service Delivery and Publishing Director for Pearson Middle East.

Pearson is an education company, and they have an Arabic learning programme to be launched in 2019.

We got our listener Ramez for this week's Takeover Radio and this Monday, he chose to play If Tomorrow Never Comes by Garth Brooks.

Want to take part in Tom's Takeover Radio? Text "TOR" or "TAKEOVER" using the free Dubai Eye messenger app.

17 December 2018: It's our paper review and we are joined by Mario Volpi, Sales manager at Engel & Volkers. He has 34yrs of real estate experience in Dubai and London.

Property prices in Dubai next year - are they going up or down?

One lucky person will own a 2BR Kensington apartment for 10 pounds....

Prime property prices in Dubai are forecast to fall by more than 2 percent next year, making it one of three key global markets to see declines alongside Mumbai and Hong Kong, according to a new report.

A cybersecurity firm has revealed the most hacked passwords of 2018 and the top offender is '123456' followed by 'password' for the fifth year running.

17 December 2018: We're talking sleep and why we need to tuck our kids into bed on time.

A recent study by the University of Colorado, involving 177,000 respondents, found that insufficient sleep was associated with unhealthy dietary habits, such as skipping breakfast, the consumption of fast food. and eating sugary foods.

Lack of sleep exacerbating obesity rates among children, study reveals, so, we speak to Dr. Abdulla Mohamed Al Jneibi, Consultant Pediatric Endocrinologist at Burjeel Hospital.