by Deborah Quinn | Aug 1, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, Education, family, Kids, marriage, Parenting, religion
image source Old Longtime friends of my husband’s got remarried this past weekend. For those of you in blogland, yes, I know, can you imagine? They got married on Blogher weekend, thus forcing me to choose between…well, between blogging and my family. My...
by Deborah Quinn | Mar 11, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, Education, family, Kids, religion, UAE
Caleb and I are in the back of a cab headed to a soccer tournament, early Saturday morning. “Mommy? Have I ever been in a church?” he asks, apropos of precisely nothing. I think to myself that surely he must have been in a church, at some point in his...
by Deborah Quinn | Dec 8, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, religion, surat al-sabt saturday snapshot, UAE
In the midst of last week’s National Day celebration, a group of men find a patch of grass to begin their prayers. Having no religious faith of my own, I am always impressed and a little mystified by devotion, while I am infuriated by zealotry of all...
by Deborah Quinn | Jun 15, 2012 | Education, Feminism, Politics, religion
The pitch: So there are these nuns, right, maybe a Sandra Bullock type and an Amy Adams type, who decide it’s time to challenge corporate bigwigs and oh yeah, maybe also the Pope, about their misplaced priorities. Hollywood Muckety-muck: Uh, nuns? The last big...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 29, 2010 | Feminism, Gender, NYC, Travel
Here’s where you get your abaya when you visit Abu Dhabi’s Grand Mosque: No, there are no shoes available here, just black full-length robes for all female visitors not already wearing a robe, and white full-length robes for male visitors wearing shorts. And...
