Deepak Unnikrishnan

Deepak Unnikrishnan is a writer from Abu Dhabi. His award-winning Temporary People, a work of fiction about Gulf narratives steeped in Malayalee and South Asian lingo, set the base for his latest project, ‘Pettee’, a dance piece co-written and co-directed with the writer Karthika Naïr, composer Sarathy Korwar, and other movement-makers. He is an Associate Arts Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi, and he has two more books in him, no more.

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On Guest-Editing The UAE Issue: Laure Assaf and Deepak Unnikrishnan

We spoke to anthropologist Laure Assaf and writer Deepak Unnikrishnan about editing Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue, which aims to move away from monolithic representations of the region. They discuss their personal histories with the country, surveillance, family, transience, gaze, theorising the UAE in real-time, and more.

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