Exhibitions | Events | Media Consultancy | Publishing
Who we are
MIA are an innovative company: creating exhibitions, managing events, handling publicity, and publishing brochures and magazines.
We have focused on building a better understanding of the Middle East, but particularly of the Gulf Arab countries, working in the region for more than 30 years.
We are a nuclear company with a small permanent staff and a wide range of specialist associates. This structure enables us to keep our costs down and at the same time to ensure that our clients receive a tailor-made service of the highest quality.
We believe that communication is the key to good relations and good business.
In the words of the American Civil Rights Leader, Martin Luther King:
“People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.”
What we do
Using our skills and a wide range of expert associates and contacts we:
Research, curate, manage and organise
Exhibitions, festivals, educational programmes, lectures, launches, conferences, dinners
Write and publish
Newsletters, press releases, brochures, speeches, web content, profiles, reports
Advise
On media relations
Recent Projects
- Early Women Explorers in Arabia: exhibition and launch including lecture (Feb 2023)
- Heart of Arabia expedition: media consultancy and management (Jan 2023)
- Heart of Arabia expedition: organisation of launch event at The Royal Geographical Society with HRH The Princess Royal
- The Other Shakespeare: exhibition and launch (May 2022)
- Journey of a Lifetime, a touring exhibition (2007 – 2023) about Princess Alice travels in Arabia. This touring exhibition has been exhibited in: London, Oxford, Cambridge, Exeter, Birmingham, Manchester, Aberdeen, and Windsor Castle.
Our Team
Ann Morris
Creative Director
Ann Morris is a journalist and exhibition curator specialising in the Gulf Arab World. She worked under contract for The Daily Mail, The London Evening Standard, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer magazine, and Harpers and Queen.
In 1990, while continuing to work as a feature writer, she and her husband Daniel Donovan took over her father’s company editing and publishing independent publication Voice of the Arab World, as well as the Kuwait Bulletin, Qatar Bulletin and Saudi Bulletin for embassies in the UK interested in developing better understanding in the West of the Arabian Gulf and the Islamic World.
MIA also acted as UK media consultants to the UAE and were closely associated with Oman, producing occasional publications for the embassy.
Daniel Donovan
Director
Daniel is the management and finance director of Morris International and heads up the research department. He has worked with the company for more than 30 years and took over part ownership more than 25 years ago.
Before joining Morris International he worked as operations manager for a UK wide retail chain. Subsequently a partner of a retailing company with branches around London, he also setup a company specialising in buying and managing property, primarily for Middle East clients, in addition to carrying out a number of housing developments in London
Have a project in mind?
If you have a project we can help with, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
✉ – ann@mia.gb.net
✉ – danny@mia.gb.net
☎ – 0207 228 1060