by Deborah Quinn | Jul 16, 2016 | Abu Dhabi, Politics, religion, The National, UAE
Last week I wrote an article for The National about the newly ironic question of “where do you feel safe?” That’s the second question people ask when I tell them where I live, as if Abu Dhabi is some terrifying city “over there.” But...
by Deborah Quinn | Jun 17, 2016 | Abu Dhabi, Children, family, tech life, The National
Let me say first that I have a bit of an internet obsession. I stay way too connected to faraway friends on Facebook and I am a too frequent visitor to Tom and Lorenzo. My books float through the ether from Amazon and land in my kindle, like Mike Teevee in Charlie and...
by Deborah Quinn | Dec 1, 2015 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Politics, The National, Travel
In October, I had the joyful experience of spending a few days in Vienna and Salzburg with my siblings and my mom. We laughed and drank, listened to music and walked through wonderful old streets exploring Austria’s history–real and imagined. There were...
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 | Mar 27, 2015 | Abu Dhabi, expat, Feminism, Gender, NYC, Politics, The National, Travel, UAE
Hi there blogosphere…. I seem to have taken an inadvertent hiatus from blogging for a while … it’s the kind of thing like forgetting to write your grandmother: the longer you wait, the more it becomes A THING and the more it becomes A THING the...
by Deborah Quinn | Jan 18, 2014 | Abu Dhabi, aging, Books, growing up, The National, Travel
You know how when you get an email or a phone message that you probably should return quickly, and then you don’t, and then the longer it goes the harder it feels to return the call? So that what would’ve been a quick little note or a short conversation...
