The Gazelle
Feb 9, 2026
Merna AlQadi
Let’s unbox the world’s favorite soft gambling addiction: blind boxes!
Adam Drai
“Go out and play!” We all have heard this being said to us or others caught playing video games indoors. Do we keep playing video games because they are extremely engaging or is it because we are out of options?
Khadijah Diab
The label often assigned to me, of being an “overly cultural person,” is not an insult. Culture does not divide but rather is our base for growth. It is a form of memory and pride that I refuse to dull down.
Hamad Almehairi
Do answers to a practice problem or a well-written essay really matter if you are not learning, more specifically, learning with others just as confused as you?
Mariam Haroun
The skater girl doesn’t skate. The punk doesn’t rage. Identity now comes prepackaged, flattened into moodboards, starter packs, and TikTok’s endless “-core” suffixes. We’ve learned how to look like everything except ourselves.
Mayada Abuhaleeqa
Brands are deciding to engage with female audiences by creating pacified, girlified versions of their original products. It is backfiring immensely.
Chadi Saadoun
Our cultural obsession with Frankenstein matters now more than ever, as Silicon Valley’s elites move from building apps to attempting to reengineer human existence itself.
Batool Al Tameemi
Stepping into a C2 elevator feels less like entering a quiet campus space and more like being swallowed by a wall of competing announcements.
Yana Peeva
Is the change of artistic direction at Vogue a symptom of a larger problem of loss of aesthetics and creativity?
Gen Z students are often described as unmotivated. But those judgments overlook the world we actually grew up in.
Zeinab Helal
The Ordinary’s “Periodic Fable” mocked skincare jargon and exposed how consumers often mistake scientific-sounding language for real results, bolstering the brand’s push for ingredient-level clarity.
The Grammy 2026 nominations reflect mostly audience scores rather than music critic opinions. Is the institution chasing ratings by pitting only the hot 100 against each other?
Isabel Ortega
This Halloween, the real monsters weren’t in costumes but in masks - federal agents firing tear gas and dragging people from their homes. As ICE raids escalate, America faces a new ritual: fear as a national holiday.
Marija Janeva
Can something as quotidian as a concert worsen the political relations between two Balkan states? A Macedonian and a Bulgarian walk into a Gazelle article and discuss.
As an arts student, how do we cope with the constant dismissiveness and underrepresentation in a STEM and finance dominated university?
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