The Team

A journalist from a family of journalists, Nicola has a deep knowledge and understanding of the Arab world. He has been engaging with various governments of the GCC over the past eighteen years, contributing to the creation and development of some major editorial projects and consulting on communication issues for the governments of Qatar and United Arab Emirates. During the recent years Nicola has developed and expanded his movie directing skills, producing some very unusual films which have scored millions of clicks on YouTube and high visibility results for the connected companies and brand names.

René is the Managing and Marketing Director of Antiga Arabia. A publisher for most of his life, René enjoys an all-round understanding of the publishing and printing industry mechanisms: he has pioneered the Corporate Publishing industry in Europe during the past three decades, as well as masterminded all the skills of the trade in the field of promotion and distribution. More recently René has also acted as Commercial Consultant for some Arab companies.

His experience in printing and publishing spans over twenty years, with a deep knowledge of the latest and most efficient production technologies. Under his management several printing and publishing houses have improved their competitive and qualitative skills offering to their clients the most appropriate and innovative solutions for their printed communication needs.

Rami is the Creative Coordinator of the Arab Design Team for Antiga Arabia. With a solid experience and history background working in all fields of Arab content design in Abu Dhabi and the Middle East, Rami is capable of delivering far fetching tasks and very demanding projects, such as reversing entire Western publications into Arabic layout. This is done not only matching the style of the original publication, but also supervising and integrating the original design with the Arab cultural elements through attentiveness to the cultural diversity. Rami coordinates a team of graphic designers, proof readers and pre-press professional engineers who can bring to press any Arabic or mixed language editorial project with unbeatable time-efficient performance.

Riccardo has an amazing experience in every field of Media productions, ranging from movies to corporate videos and commercials, to naturalistic documentaries, to large TV formats and realities, to extreme sports and scientific productions. He leads a team of experienced cameramen, light experts and sound technicians and masters a wealth of state-of- the-art digital filming systems, including a full range of new generation SteadyCams