NYU Professor Barred from Abu Dhabi

A New York University professor who has been critical of the treatment of migrant construction workers in the United Arab Emirates has been barred from the country, The New York Times reported. Andrew Ross, professor of social and cultural analysis, was at New York’s Kennedy International Airport when he was prohibited by U.A.E. authorities from boarding a plane bound for Abu Dhabi, where N.Y.U. has a campus and where Ross had planned to spend his spring break continuing his research on labor conditions. The reason given was unspecified security concerns.