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Student life app meets varied reviews

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Student life app meets varied reviews

  • Zoe H

For the NYU Abu Dhabi student body, a new school year is synonymous with change. The end of August always brings fresh faces, exciting events,...

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Shift in J-Term policy offers limited flexibility

Shift in J-Term policy offers limited flexibility

  • Joey Bui

A revision to January Term policy, by which only three J-Term classes are required instead of the original four, was announced on August 18 in the...

Inter-class bonding important for community building

Inter-class bonding important for community building

  • Carmen Germaine

A week ago, students returning to Abu Dhabi found cozy Sama Tower the most crowded it has ever been and ever will be as far as NYUAD is concerned....

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AD Secrets: Wadi A’z Zafran

  • Nicole Lopez del Carril

Shift in J-Term policy offers limited flexibility

  • Joey Bui

Labeling America beyond U.S. borders

  • Andres Rodriguezz

Examining change in Sama Tower dynamics

  • Clare Hennig

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Moon on horizon: songs for the road

Moon on horizon: songs for the road

  • Keriana Piripi

We, the jaded post-post modernist generation, are always in search of the neoteric. This can certainly prove most difficult in the realm of music....

Examining change in Sama Tower dynamics

Examining change in Sama Tower dynamics

  • Clare Hennig

Three years ago, when the current NYU Abu Dhabi senior class first arrived as the inaugural freshman generation, things were very different than they...

AD Secrets: Wadi A’z Zafran

AD Secrets: Wadi A’z Zafran

  • Nicole Lopez del Carril

Behind ornate baskets stuffed with dried hibiscus, red roses, yas leaves, chamomile and frankincense lays Wadi A’z Zafran, or the valley of saffron....

news
Media coverage reflects polarized agendas in Turkish protests

Media coverage reflects polarized agendas in Turkish protests

  • Alistair Blacklock

Newly arrived in Istanbul for a summer internship in early June, NYU Abu Dhabi sophomore Tessa Ayson was regularly checking Twitter one night with...

opinion
Arabic 101 necessary for cultural integration

Arabic 101 necessary for cultural integration

  • Clare Hennig

Every freshman at NYU Abu Dhabi should take a semester of Arabic. Arabic is the only class, since 12th-grade calculus, that has regularly made me...

Labeling America beyond U.S. borders

Labeling America beyond U.S. borders

  • Andres Rodriguezz

"America is a whole continent," said that snobby kid in class. The first time I said, “They should call themselves U.S. Asians,” it was a joke — a ...

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