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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
