Dr. Neha Vora @nativeinformant

Anthropologist and qualitative researcher, Gulf and Indian Ocean studies, transnational migration, cats, jewelry, champagne, and shoes sup.org/books/title/?i… Joined November 2012

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كلية العلوم الاجتماعية والإنسانية - معهد الدوحة @DI_SOSH

a week ago

On September 14, 2025, the Sociology and Anthropology Program organized a seminar titled 'Microarchitectures of Care and Walking as Spatial Politics of Belonging in the UAE', presented by Dr. Neha Vora, Professor of Anthropology at the American University of Sharjah, UAE.

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Manishankar I مانيشانكار @change_thinker

a month ago

Dubai's South Asian Communities | Prof Neha Vora youtu.be/zsSkMUzK0Yw?si… via @YouTube

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F. Adam @zanah_za

2 months ago

#podcast | The author of "Impossible Citizens: #Dubai's Indian Diaspora" and "Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar," Neha Vora on living in the #UAE, & the evolving diaspora dynamics in the Gulf. podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the…

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afikra | عفكرة @afikra

2 months ago

Author of "Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora" @nativeinformant talks about the influence of South Asian communities in Dubai, the concept of citizenship beyond legal definitions, and the evolving diaspora dynamics in the Gulf. youtu.be/zsSkMUzK0Yw

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Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation @AlQasimiFound

5 months ago

Are you a cat lover? Join us for a unique session with Dr. Neha Vora, Professor of Anthropology at the American University of Sharjah, as she explores how stray cat care in UAE cities opens up new ways of thinking about kinship, precarity, and belonging. Register here:…

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi

7 months ago

Never forget that Columbia University invited Nazis to speak on campus in the 1930s and then expelled a student for leading the protest rally. They ruined his career and never apologized. Nothing has changed.

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م @m_aalth

8 months ago

very happy to have @nativeinformant @ @GUQatar to discuss how “looking down” towards neighborhood cats in the gulf can help us decolonize urbanism & reclaim public space, create solidarities across gender/class lines, but how they can also exacerbate these same identity markers🐈

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Maura Finkelstein @Dr_mauraf

10 months ago

@susanabulhawa I loved this essay by anthropologist Neha Vora, in case you haven’t seen it: allegralaboratory.net/the-cats-of-ga…

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Jörg Matthias Determann @JMDetermann

10 months ago

Congratulations once again to Amal Sachedina on winning the @AgapsOrg Biennial Book Award 2023! The commendation that @nativeinformant, @fanarhaddad and I wrote was published in vol. 13, no. 2, of the Journal of Arabian Studies. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Nora Jaber - نورة جابر @noratjaber

12 months ago

I wrote about Saudi Arabia’s ‘women’s empowerment’ narrative. Who does it benefit and who does it exclude? I show why we need a more emancipatory feminist politics that doesn’t just seek inclusion for some, but structural change. @jadaliyya jadaliyya.com/Details/46284

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Nora Jaber - نورة جابر @noratjaber

12 months ago

Huge thanks to @nativeinformant and the @jadaliyya editors. Thanks also to @pashukanist, Mira Al-Hussein, Adam Hanieh, Francesco Amoruso, and Jamal Abu-Eisheh for their thoughts and comments on earlier drafts.

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AE/AES - Come join us at @amethno.bsky.social ! @AmEthno

a year ago

AE 51.3 - Congrats to all our authors! 🎉🎉🎉 @DominicBoyer, Eli Elinoff, @ghazalfarrukhi, @Busnihoh, Peter Nyers, Kalpana Ram, Rebecca Bryant, Ayşe Çağlar, @sianlazar, @CastanedaHeide, @nativeinformant, Brian Walter, Emrah Karakuş, @ElanaResnick

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Khaleej Times @khaleejtimes

a year ago

Dr Neha Vora, a professor at the American University of Sharjah (AUS), has been exploring the sense of belonging among the diaspora in the country and has found that stray cats play a vital role. For her, one of the biggest takeaways from her ongoing study is the amount of…

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MoTaz @motazazaiza9

2 years ago

I’m here at the White House. Would it make a difference? I don’t know but I’m trying my best even if my work was always behind the cameras. It’s not about me anymore, it’s about stopping this genocide by whatever it costs. Don’t forget you all to keep calling for a ceasefire…

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World University Rankings @THEworldunirank

2 years ago

| End of year reads | In August, Neha Vora gave up her coveted role as a tenured professor in a US liberal arts college for a job at a university in the Middle East. She’s not alone. Why are scholars moving to the Gulf? @teayaha reports. timeshighereducation.com/world-universi… #THEArab