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Author: Deborah Williams

Deborah Williams is a writer and clinical professor in literature and creative writing with NYU Abu Dhabi. For four years, she wrote a cultural opinion column for The National, the English-language paper of the UAE; her essays have appeared in various publications, including Brevity, The Rumpus, Motherwell, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, and The New York Times, and The Common.

1 October, 2023 • Deborah Williams

It Is Time to Reclaim Public Intellectuals

  Deborah Lindsey Williams   Writing in the early part of the 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that in the newly founded America, “there does not exist . .… Continue reading It Is Time to Reclaim Public Intellectuals

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8 May, 2023 • Deborah Williams

Rebecca Makkai’s New Novel Makes Us Question What We Know

Deborah Williams reviews the new literary thriller from Rebecca Makkai that makes us question everything we know.

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7 February, 2022 • Deborah Williams

Censorship, Book Burning and Abu Dhabi Orientalism

Abu Dhabi-based professor Deborah Williams contrasts the new American censorship of "Maus" and Harry Potter book burning with her own potentially inflammatory syllabus.

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13 December, 2021 • Deborah Williams

Reflections on Abu Dhabi and the U.A.E. at 50

The powerhouse United Arab Emirates has just fêted 50 years as a country, and 10-year resident Deborah Williams takes stock.

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22 November, 2021 • Deborah Williams

Traveling in Contentious Spaces — Saudi Arabia

When friends in Abu Dhabi asked Deborah Williams how she could support MBS by going to “his” festival, she didn’t have an answer, only another question: how do we draw the lines around where we will or won’t go?

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