Nadeen Dakkak

My article "Migrant Literatures and Cultures in the Arab Gulf" just published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. This is an introductory piece that tries to weave in as much as possible important work done in past years on Gulf migration. oxfordre.com/literature/dis…

It’s time for the Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue launch events! London friends, please join us tomorrow night at Reference Point for the official launch party, with live music, photography, and contributor readings. Tickets: buff.ly/IwXBK7N

Another fantastic Exeter Gulf Studies conference — starting with a panel with one of our @GUQatar @CIRSGUQ own, Noor Hussein! And what a pleasure to be back on the beautiful @UniofExeter campus — my alma mater!

Join us on 7 July at 16:00 BST for an online discussion with Dr Celso Neto (University of Exeter) on "The Return of Biological Races?" as part of the Reading Decoloniality reading group. You can register and access the readings here: readingdecoloniality.warwick.ac.uk/join/

We're excited to share an online extract from the lead feature in Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue. In this personal essay, @nadeendakkak charts her family's movements across the Gulf and beyond, reflecting on the silences and nostalgia of serially migrating. buff.ly/aRhJ4t6

A provocative and exciting reading group coming up, featuring Celso Neto: readingdecoloniality.warwick.ac.uk/join/ #antiracism #colonialism

Come celebrate with us as we launch Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue! ✨ TUES, 15 JULY: Launch party at Reference Point, London, with music, photography, and readings from contributors. WED, 16 JULY: Free roundtable discussions with three issue contributors. buff.ly/1rBIudq

‘We hope this issue will be a starting point, not an end.’ Read our interview with the guest co-editors of Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue – Laure Assaf & Deepak Unnikrishnan. wasafiri.org/content/on-gue…

Received this book today which includes a chapter I've written on Gulf migrant labor protests in two stories by Deepak Unnikrishnan. Many thanks to @RashVarma and Jini Kim Watson for bringing the book together! Do reach out if you'd like to read the piece and don't have access.

Read the first online extract from Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue — in @ShafeeqVly's life writing, he remembers watching the Berlin Wall fall on his TV from Abu Dhabi's Madinat Zayed township, where he lived following his father's immigration from Kerala. buff.ly/Kba7iiV

Our summer special issue, Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue, is now available to read online! Read here (for digital subscribers & those with access to Taylor & Francis only): buff.ly/IXL7GnH Can't access online? Preorder the print issue here: buff.ly/W7YVfci

Bharti Arora (University of Delhi) is leading the next Reading Decoloniality reading group this Wednesday. Read more, register and join us for this fascinating conversation: readingdecoloniality.warwick.ac.uk/join/ @DecolonialWG

Join us on 7 May and 9 July for two upcoming Reading Decoloniality sessions @DecolonialWG with Bharti Arora and Celso Neto. Register here: readingdecoloniality.warwick.ac.uk/join/

For the latest MER issue, I wrote about reading Sadallah Wannous in the Exeter encampment and how the playwright’s works and thought speak to this moment. His work is available in English in the brilliant anthology ‘Sentence to Hope.’ @yalepress⁩ merip.org/2025/01/breaki…

The beating heart of Arab authoritarianism is no more.