Deborah Lindsay Williams
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    • The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction (book)
    • Not in Sisterhood (Book)
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Commencement Time, or what does a dinosaur have to do with the liberal arts?

by Deborah Quinn | May 22, 2015 | Abu Dhabi, Education, NYUAD, The National, UAE

It’s graduation time all over the US and in Abu Dhabi, NYUAD students are readying themselves for the same ritual.  And as students prepare to march across all manner of stages and listen to all manner of speeches, it seems appropriate to think about what we...

Teaching Keeps You Young. Except When It Makes You Feel Old.

by Deborah Quinn | Jun 3, 2013 | Education, Kids, NYUAD, teaching

Here’s the thing about being a professor: your students stay roughly the same from year to year. Eighteen is eighteen is eighteen, more or less. And the same with the twenty-year olds, and with the about-to-graduates.  Yes, the particularities of dreams and...

in which people who have never ever been to abu dhabi say a whole lot of stuff about abu dhabi (and my job)

by Deborah Quinn | Mar 16, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, Education, expat, Feminism, NYC, NYUAD, Politics, ranting, teaching, UAE

I live in Abu Dhabi. When I tell people that, I usually have to do a few follow-up comments. No, Abu Dhabi isn’t where they filmed that “Mission Impossible” movie, that’s Dubai; yes, it’s the setting for the dreadful “Sex and the...

Monday Listicles: 10 Photos, 10 Wishes

by Deborah Quinn | Nov 28, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, birth, Children, family, Monday Listicle, NYC, NYUAD, Travel

This Monday’s listicle comes at the request of Kim, at Zook Book Nook: she’s having a new baby, maybe even right this very minute, and she wanted to create a series of blog posts about “the senses.”  This week’s series is about...

standing together in the dark

by Deborah Quinn | Sep 11, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, expat, NYC, NYUAD, Politics, UAE

It started last night. A “ding-ding-ding,” like someone’s phone was ringing, or like the sound you hear in department store elevators announcing that the next stop is ladies lingerie. I stomped out of bed to ask Husband why the hell he hadn’t turned off...

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