The Gazelle
May 4, 2025
Clare Hennig
More than a dozen international and local artists took the stage on the Corniche this weekend as part of the 2013 F1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand ...
Debates and concerns about drinking unfiltered tap water are not new. What is in our water? Where does it come from? Is it safe to drink? Questions ...
Mark Swislocki, assistant professor of history at NYU Abu Dhabi, has examined food culture through both his work and in the core course he teaches, ...
The mass movement of refugees from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa in the past year has been described by journalists and politicians as ...
Photo by Clare Hennig/The Gazelle “Study with someone you don’t really like. That way you know you’ll end up talking about work,” said Blair Matarlo, a ...
Photo credit: Courtesy of Flavors of Abu Dhabi It’s a Wednesday evening and you are meeting with a group of students over dinner to sample a new ...
Starting this semester, The Gazelle will be regularly covering NYU Abu Dhabi sports teams and their weekly scores. The Falcons teams competing this ...
Joey Bui
For students whose pantries are filled with almost-empty Nutella jars, the last bits of flour, a handful of ketchup packets and a few spoonfuls of ...
Sixty delegates from eight different universities across Abu Dhabi competed in the second annual Sila Connection conference from Nov. 22 to 23. The ...
Photo courtesy of Kathleen Russel Over the weekend, four students successfully obtained PADI Open Water Diver certification for PE credit. The group of ...
Three years ago, when the current NYU Abu Dhabi senior class first arrived as the inaugural freshman generation, things were very different than they ...
LONDON, United Kingdom — Cleaning staff from the School of Oriental and African Studies, or SOAS, a department of the University of London, went on ...
After attracting more than 10,000 first-round applicants, the 5th annual Hult Prize regional-level finals were held on March 8 in six cities around the ...
A pile of pillows lay serenely stacked up on a table in the East Plaza. Within minutes, though, the pillows were flying through the air and fluff was ...
Cheering and chanting from the bleachers, a sea of purple-clad NYU Abu Dhabi students marked the first pep rally at the university this past Wednesday ...
For Ethiopian sophomore Hayat Mohammed, the idea of an organization that would empower young writers and promote African story-telling first began as a ...
Eid break, from Oct. 13 to Oct. 17, is a little more than a month away and students are beginning to make plans to travel abroad. A large majority of ...
Photo courtesy of Daria Karaulova An NYU portal site can be found on nearly every continent of the globe; simply choosing between the 14 different GNU ...
Karma Dolma Gurung
A deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal last Saturday on 25 April, the worst the country has suffered in more than 80 years. Multiple ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal — As Qatar gears up for the 2022 World Cup, elaborate plans are underway for revamped infrastructure, new metro lines and five ...
A father-son clown skit, an aerial dance, a trapeze ensemble and a strongman act were just a few performances of the Moscow Grand Circus that premiered ...
“Residential College programs are typical features of many liberal arts colleges — it's sort of a House model, too, not unlike Hogwarts,” said Bryan ...
Approximately sixty volunteers gathered in the area in front of the Eastern Mangrove Lagoon National Park on Friday Sept. 13 to partake in the second ...
Over the past long weekend, the NYU Abu Dhabi Arabic department organized a class trip to Jordan. Two dozen of the students enrolled in Intermediate ...
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 want ...
AMMAN, Jordan — On Wednesday, Oct. 29, the Jordanian government prohibited public Halloween celebrations. Bars and clubs were warned not to host ...
LONDON, United Kingdom — Celebrations of Chinese New Year took place throughout London this past Sunday, Feb. 2, with parades and performances spilling ...
A fledgling falcon, still covered with its puffy brown feathers of babyhood, huddled in a corner outside of the ice cream shop. It was the beginning of ...
Megan Eloise
An elusive character showed up at NYU Abu Dhabi last week and has since been spotted around campus at sports games, in the Convenience Store and with ...
Melissa Lowry, Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor at NYUAD Clare Hennig is features editor. Email her at feedback@gzl.me. ...
If you invite someone over but the gathering place is small and crowded, this expression is used to welcome guests and say that there is always enough ...
Regularly smashing world records to raise money for charity, Eva Clarke has been dubbed the UAE’s Fittest Woman, seemingly unfazed by every and any ...
Editor’s note: this article contains explicit language. Nearly a fifth of students on US college campuses suffer from some form of an eating disorder ...
Photo by Clare Hennig/The Gazelle Easter was widely celebrated across Abu Dhabi last weekend, with some 25,000 Christians gathering at the city’s ...
Photo by Alistair Blacklock/The Gazelle Several dozen students gathered at the Downtown Campus garden on April 22 to show support for Earth Day, an ...
Racing down the highway towards Dubai, road-tripping across all seven emirates, escaping Saadiyat Island without waiting for the right shuttle — who ...
Photo by Jennifer Scully/The Gazelle NYUAD’s Dragon Boat team competed in their last event of the season this Friday at the Dubai Festival City Dragon ...
Tired of the Dining Hall food and want to try something new? A little bit of creativity stirred up with some ingredients from the Sama Dining Hall can ...
A desk can reveal a lot about its owner. For sophomore Aliz Toth, the trinkets scattered on her desk shed light on her interests, hinting at plans for ...
Initial plans to create a Peace and Conflict Studies concentration at NYU Abu Dhabi are underway in response to active student interest in the subject. ...
This article was first published in The Gazelle on May 9, 2015. Nearly a fifth of students on US college campuses suffer from some form of an eating ...
Rahmentulla is working on a joint capstone in Arab Crossroads and Literature. The project has evolved into an anthropology project about a Shia Muslim ...
Photo by Clare Hennig/The Gazelle Running shoes. Side-by-side, these two words conjure up the unremarkable image of a typical pair of lace-ups one ...
Although Arabic is the official language of the UAE, many Arabic students at NYU Abu Dhabi find that they still have a difficult time gaining ...
For three weeks this past January, NYU Abu Dhabi students in the Emirati dialect January Term course lived, breathed and dreamt in Arabic. The ...
It takes three weeks to make — or break — a habit. At least, that is the philosophy behind NYU Abu Dhabi’s 21-Day Wellness Challenge that kicked off ...