The Gazelle
May 4, 2025
features
Cordelia Taylor
It was 2014, the end of fall semester and my first time flying back to Indonesia as an NYU Abu Dhabi student. Having left Indonesia for four months —...
Geo Kamus
“It might be serious,” my dad tells us. My parents called a family meeting in their room in the middle of the night because they are trying to figure...
Joey Bui
Zoe H
The departure of one of NYU Abu Dhabi’s two counselors, announced on Dec. 14 in a school-wide email, highlights the instability, shortage and...
Rosy Tahan
Asyrique Asyraf Thevendran
The Video Desk
Born to a Japanese mother and a Swiss father, NYU Abu Dhabi junior Sophie Arni is no stranger to the term cosmopolitanism. By the age of 18, she had...
Creative Desk
Brandon Wahba and Robson Beaudry are seniors who began collaborating on rap music this semester. Drawing from their experiences in Abu Dhabi, and ...
Andrija Klaric
Stjepan Klinar
Anyone who knows the two of us knows where to find us every Monday and Wednesday after lunch: we are kicking our afternoons off with a hot macchiato....
Sergei Rokachov
Born and raised in Yevpatoriya, Crimea, when it was still part of Ukraine, I always identified as Russian because of my ethnic and cultural roots, ...
Supriya Kamath
It was strange. At 11:59 p.m. I was watching Disney’s Princess Protection Program and banging pots and pans together. Exactly one minute later, I had...
Anastasiya Oleksiyenko
While the Dec. 6 article “The Propaganda Surrounding Crimea” provides a curious perspective about the personal experience of living in Crimea, I...
I would like to thank everyone who participated in the discussion of my article The Propaganda Surrounding Crimea and to clarify on certain issues...
Kaja Schmidt
New York University. That is, NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU New York and NYU Shanghai. Three continents, three cities and three campuses. Separate...
Sebastián Rojas Cabal
Sebastián Rojas Cabal is research editor. Email him at feedback@thegazelle.org. ...
On Dec. 10, NYU Abu Dhabi administration sent an email advising the university community to avoid drinking the tap water on campus. A Student Portal...
Jocilyn Estes
On Nov. 30, freshman engineering students received an email from Dean of Engineering Samer Madanat, detailing a change in their prospective major’s...
Siba Siddique
With the ultimate goal of empowering workers in the UAE, the Labor Line Project is an initiative that translates labor law rights into the first ...
Penelope Peng
Manarat Al Saadiyat came to life from Nov. 18 to 21, as thousands of visitors attended the seventh annual Abu Dhabi Art event. This year, the...
Connor Pearce
Editor’s Note: The following article contains explicit language. Instead of the regular General Assembly schedule of amendments and points ...
Tayla Jade McHardie
Tayla Jade McHardie is a contributing writer. Email her at feedback@thegazelle.org. ...
Harvey Molotch
Much of my research has been devoted to how cities form, sustain themselves and, at times, wither away. Another focus of my research has been ...
Where do you know yourself best? Few people find the answer to this question on a cluster of map coordinates. Though we are often asked for home...
Kate Melville-Rea
What would a month’s worth of someone’s plastic waste look like? For November, my plastic waste was 33 items including a straw, honey container, pill...
Karolina Wilczynska
This is the second in a series of articles on study abroad sites in which The Gazelle will feature in-depth conversations with recently-returned ...
Thomas Yates
A rich fragrance danced in my nose as I entered the roastery. It came from the centerpiece apparatus, accompanied by a whirring of metal and a...
“What is your religion?” “Um. I don’t know... love? I believe in love.” That is, ironically, my go-to answer to the frequently asked question, even...
Natalie Kopczewski
There is a shift that happens when you move from high school to college. After having become used to walking a certain life path for 12 or 13 years,...
“I couldn’t imagine how the campus would function without Facebook, just because it uses so much of it,” said senior Nushkia Chamba. This statement...
Liza Tait-Bailey
Do you like yourself? I didn’t. I haven’t for most of my life. As a child, I suppose I never gave it much thought. I was just who I was. Then I...
Riva Razdan
“Pfft, don’t you just wish you were studying the arts,” an acquaintance of mine dismissively scoffed as I walked out of a theater class that ran for...
Yi Yi Yeap
When my close friend, fellow Australasian mate and sometimes-madre Tessa suggested that I write for the Identity Issue of the Gazelle, I laughed and...
Krishan Mistry
…is the other side of the hospital that they said you could see but maybe they were lying or perhaps you don’t remember… …is the place that you think...
Pranav Mehta
“So, where are you from?” I am from here. I am from there. I am. Pranav Mehta is a contributing writer. Email him at feedback@thegazelle.org. ...
Today, I read that the British Parliament has voted in favor of bombing Syria. I scrolled through countless outraged Facebook posts by friends inside...
