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Laure Assaf

Laure Assaf is an anthropologist and an Assistant Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her research and teaching focus on youth, urbanity, migration, and social hierarchies in the contemporary United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the broader Gulf region.

Articles by Laure Assaf

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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