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Art Spiegelman, author and artist of the classic graphic novel Maus<\/em> (photo Bertrand Langois – Handout).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Deborah L. Williams<\/p>\n<\/h4>\n

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When I saw in the newspaper<\/a> that a school board in Tennessee had decided to ban Art Spiegelman\u2019s book Maus<\/em> because because \u201cof its unnecessary use of profanity and nudity and its depiction of violence and suicide,\u201d I realized that my office bookshelves at NYU Abu Dhabi would make the school board members twitch with despair.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What would they think of the shelves full of what can only be called critical race theory, or the rows of books about gender studies and queer literary history\u2014Terry Castle\u2019s Apparitional Lesbian<\/em> nestled against Foucault\u2019s Discipline and Punish<\/em>\u2014or, horrors, the stacks of YA fiction, full of representations of magic, human-made climate crises, alternative universes, and revolutions. And, of course, scattered across my shelves are several different editions of Maus<\/em>, which I\u2019ve taught almost every year for the last ten years. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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On Feb. 3, 2022, alt-right pastor Greg Locke led a book burning of Harry Potter<\/em> novels and other titles, Mount Juliet, Tennessee (photo courtesy Tennessee Holler<\/a>).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\nIn fact, my shelves would be a surprise to my colleagues and friends in New York, most of whom were sure that when I moved to NYUAD ten years ago, I wouldn\u2019t have the freedom to teach any of those things. From the moment that the NYUAD project was announced, people were sure that \u201cwe\u201d would never be able to teach \u201cthem\u201d the things that mattered\u2014an attitude that smacks of more than a little cultural superiority, as if the NYUAD project was intended to somehow bring the light of Western liberalism to the benighted Middle East. There was very little discussion about the NYUAD project might actually involve exchange, conversation, circulation\u2014ideas mixing and being changed in the process.<\/p>\n

Some of the course titles for classes in the NYUAD Core (every student is required to take at least four courses in the Core) tell a different story\u2014or rather, they tell multiple stories: \u201cGender and Representation,\u201d \u201cNovels that Changed the World,\u201d \u201cFeminism and Islamism,\u201d \u201cRevolutions and Change,\u201d and a class taught by the former president of NYU, John Sexton, \u201cThe Relationship of Government and Religion.\u201d This last class was mentioned by a faculty member in a 2008 article in New York Magazine<\/a>, as an example of a course that probably wouldn\u2019t be welcomed in a country that has no separation between church and state. Sexton has been teaching this class in Abu Dhabi since the university\u2019s first year and has continued to do so (interrupted only by the pandemic).<\/p>\n

One of the first times I taught Maus<\/em> in Abu Dhabi, a student in the class, who went to high school in Islamabad, looked at me in shock: \u201cdid that really happen<\/em>?\u201d He was pointing to a picture of Auschwitz prisoners being beaten by Nazi guards. The fact that the prisoners are mice and the guards are cats does not lessen the impact of the images; the student, who had gotten only a very general outline of World War II events in school, was shocked. His surprise was echoed\u2014surprisingly\u2014by a student who grew up in Jamaica, another who grew up in South Africa, and another who went to high school in Qatar and said her school\u2019s librarian kept a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em> (wrapped in brown paper) behind her desk. \u201cShe would loan it to us if she trusted us,\u201d the student said. And another student, who grew up in a former Soviet republic said that she and her friends felt like World War II was the only thing they learned about.<\/p>\n

Those different experiences and the fact that no single experience was in the majority is one of the delights\u2014and challenges\u2014of teaching at NYUAD and, in fact, of living in Abu Dhabi. Yes, the language of instruction at NYUAD is English, which is perhaps best explained as a necessary evil\u2014a polyglot community needs some semblance of a lingua franca\u2014that is also a teaching tool: we talk deeply and specifically about translation and translation theories, about languages of intimacy and estrangement. Each student has a different relationship and yet, at the same time, in the having<\/em> of these relationships with language, they find ways to connect with one another, despite their differences.<\/p>\n

You could say that all of us in the classroom are a bit off balance\u2014students who have never been in a co-ed class, or read a novel for school, or written an essay, or spent time in the company of people unlike themselves. I thought about my student from Islamabad, now long since graduated, when I read about the complacent school board in Tennessee. How will the students in those schools react when they (eventually) encounter unsettling truths or meet people whose experiences are radically different from their own? It isn\u2019t easy to be off-balance, god knows; it takes practice. It is <\/em>a practice. And if we don\u2019t practice, we end up stuck in our own certainties and fear, unable to imagine lives other than our own.<\/p>\n

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Rooftop view of NYU Abu Dhabi campus (courtesy Deborah Williams).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\nTen years into this expat life, I am still asked by friends in the States if I have to cover, if I can drive, drink, wear a bikini. They wonder about the repressed veiled women, about laborers being exploited to the point of death, about the tyrannical Sultan who runs the country. I send photos of people (men and women) on the beach in itsy-bitsy bathing suits; I tell them about the veiled woman I saw the other day gunning the engine on her Mustang when the red light flicked to green; I share my favorite story of how a former student, a Muslim woman, gamed the system of Ladies Nights that are offered at bars all over town: she\u2019d go with her gay male friend, who happily drank her free \u201cLadies\u201d drinks while his presence as her plus-one would prevent her from getting hit on by other men.<\/p>\n

The UAE has a population<\/a> of about nine million, of which only about 11% are Emirati. The largest non-Emirati group comes from India, followed by Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. Europe, the UK, and the US get lumped in with \u201call other countries\u201d in a group of about 1.8 million people. In Abu Dhabi, these groups bump up against each other on the streets, in the malls and parks, on the buses and on the bike paths. While only Emiratis are guaranteed citizenship (there is a complex citizenship application for other nationalities), it is a place where\u2014for the most part\u2014difference is tolerated as a source of strength. Tolerance has become a bit of a buzzword, in fact, as illustrated by the recent creation of the \u201cMinistry of Tolerance.\u201d There is a whole kaleidoscope of diasporas and migrations here; most of us are here to create, in some way, better opportunities for our families, wherever they may be. Living here reminds me that we are all of us wrapped in multiple narratives that sometimes overlap, sometimes entangle, sometimes collide.<\/p>\n

That multiplicity exists in Maus<\/em>, too, which reminds us that in addition to Art\u2019s relationship to his father and his father\u2019s memories of the Holocaust, there is the unspoken story of Art\u2019s stepmother, who also lived through the war, and Art\u2019s mother who kills herself for reasons that Art does not know.<\/p>\n

I thought about these multiple narratives when I went back to look at the 2008 New York Magazine article about the founding of NYUAD. The writer referred to Abu Dhabi\u2019s plan to \u201csink $27 billion into the adjacent Saadiyat Island, which over the next decade will be transformed from a deserted sand bank into the most highbrow cultural theme park on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is \u201chighbrow cultural theme park\u201d the best way to describe a collection of world-class museums, a university, and the buildings devoted to the Abraham Accords<\/a>? Or perhaps the writer simply couldn\u2019t imagine a narrative about the UAE in which the country is anything other than fuel pump to the world. An actual place where art gets made? That doesn\u2019t fit the story.<\/p>\n

Sitting in my office on Saadiyat, I had to laugh at the irony of Maus <\/em>being banned: the US seems to be closing down while the UAE, contrary to Western expectations, is getting more open.<\/p>\n

Except you know what? Watching American fundamentalists gain control isn\u2019t funny. Not at all.<\/p>\n

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