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Dina Budair

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Dina Budair was interviewed by her brother, Muhammad Budair in October 2022. In this interview, Budair talks about her experiences traveling around the Middle East as well as visiting the United States. She goes into detail about living in the United Arab Emirates, particularly how her identity as a woman impacts her lifestyle in the Middle East being a woman in the Middle East.

 
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Title

Dina Budair

Description

Dina Budair was interviewed by her brother, Muhammad Budair. In her interview, she talks about her experiences with traveling around the Middle East as well as visiting the United States. Dina Budair goes into detail about living in the U.A.E as well as being a woman in the Middle East.

Date

1 October 2022

Format

Digital Audio
URL: https://archive.umd.umich.edu/s/mmetohp/page/DinaBudair

Identifier

MMETOH 22

interviewer

Muhammad Budair

interviewee

Dina Budair

Subject

Mobility
Freedom
Middle East
Arabs

Language

English

Item sets

For Further Reading

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Alawadi, Khaled, Victoria Hernandez Striedinger, Praveen Maghelal, and Asim Khanal. "Assessing Walkability in Hot Arid Regions: The Case of Downtown Abu Dhabi." Urban Design International (London, England) 27, iss. 3 (2021): 211-231. Link.

Ewers, Michael C. "International Knowledge Mobility and Urban Development in Rapidly Globalizing Areas: Building Global Hubs for Talent in Dubai and Abu Dhabi." Urban Geography 38, no. 2 (2017): 291-314. Link.

Mohammad, Robina, and James D. Sidaway. "Spectacular Urbanization Amidst Variegated Geographies of Globalization: Learning from Abu Dhabi's Trajectory through the Lives of South Asian Men." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 36, no. 3 (2012): 606-627. Link.

Sotoudehnia, Maral, and Reuben Rose‐Redwood. "‘I Am Burj Khalifa’: Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Toponymic Commodification and the Worlding of Dubai." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 43, no. 6 (2019): 1014-1027. Link.

Stockton, Ronald R. "The Palestinians of Dearborn, Michigan." Psychological Reports 56, no. 1 (1985): 123-129. Link.

Zelkovitz, Ido. "A Paradise Lost? the Rise and Fall of the Palestinian Community in Kuwait." Middle Eastern Studies 50, no. 1 (2014): 86-99. Link.