Abu Dhabi's Old Buildings

Abu Dhabi’s constant building boom means that structures are constantly being built, emptied, torn down and rebuilt; leaving empty spaces waiting to be repurposed.

Update on Wage Remediation Process

NYUAD announces that workers who were violated under NYU's labor standards are now being compensated.

Letter from the Editor: Identity and Place

Even if the solution is not readily apparent, the act of critique can be empowering in itself, as we further understand and inquire into our unique situation here in Abu Dhabi.

Student Government Review 2016-2017

This is the second iteration of the Student Government review, comparing the platforms which the Student Government Executive Board ran on with what was achieved over the past academic year.

Announcement of 2017 Commencement Speaker

Find out who the speaker for the 2017 NYUAD Commencement Ceremony is.

Low Number of Female RAs Limits Female Singles

This week saw Residential Education once again embroiled in controversy over the low number of single bedroom rooms for females, compared with the number of singles for males.

Letter from the Editor: Finding Shelter

Reconsidering the sheltered campus.

General Assembly Report

Discover what was discussed in the most recent General Assembly.

Accountability and Programming: Discussion of IRHC Resurfaces

The second in a two-part series on the IRHC, focusing on their relationship with Student Government.

Housing Priority Raffle leads to criticism of Residential Education, IRHC

A two-part series on the recent housing priority raffle at the IRHC General Assembly, which caused mixed reactions from the student body.

Letter From The Editor: Celebration and Tradition

As the last class of the Sama generation graduates this spring, it will be worth reflecting on which traditions NYUAD collectively wants to hold on to.

General Assembly Report

Discover what was discussed in the most recent General Assembly.

Board of Appeals Rules on Case involving Global Vice President

The Board of Appeals releases decision to prohibit Global Vice President from performing his other duties as Senator-at-Large.

The General Assembly Report

Discover what was discussed in the most recent General Assembly.

Letter from the Editor

Between a sandstorm and a bubble.

Letter From the Editors: Reflecting on Our Place

What is it that we do, and why do we continue to do it?

Allegations of Staff Mistreatment Highlight the Role of Compliance

"Complaints should be brought to Compliance, because being vocal on Facebook is not going to help."

Letter from the Editors: Celebrating 100 Issues

100 issues. 300 authors. 1700 articles.

Letter from the Editors: Travel and Displacement

Traveling is a fundamental pivot around which life at NYUAD revolves.

Performance as a road to empathy

The space in which the performance exists, as a fiction or an allegory, can have the potential to reframe the world and current events.

Grade Inflation at NYUAD

What this ultimately means is that grades, as a pedagogical tool, are becoming less and less useful, for both faculty and students.

Letter from the Editors: Body and Image

The human body is — and always has been — the center of political, economical, social and religious debates: it’s a sin, it’s a machine, it’s an agent, it’s a business.

Eating Disorders and Study Abroad

Students share perspectives and complications arising during studying abroad in regard to health and eating.

(More than) a day in the life of Nik Bärtsch

A look back at Bartsch's recent performance at the NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center.

Community and Critique exhibition opens at Warehouse 421

Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation’s Fellowship artists showcase artwork themed around the UAE and self-representation at Warehouse 421.

Ride-Hailing Applications in Trouble

Uber and Careem apps suspended their services to drivers and customers. Uber remains offline

Letter from The Editors

Pause and look at what’s going on around us, what impacts us and what we do. And ask why.

Students left waiting due to visa delays

At least three freshmen have had their visas delayed and may not start with the rest of their class.

#4Demands: Health, Jobs and Education bring thousands to London's streets

LONDON, United Kingdom — On April 16, thousands of people marched through central London demanding an end to austerity, an end to Conservative Party ...

New, Exclusive Student Constitution: Transparency Not Included

LONDON, United Kingdom — The proposed NYU Abu Dhabi Student Government constitution is a wholesale departure from any ideal of transparency and wide ...

Title IX in the UAE

SYDNEY, Australia — In a 2011 Dear Colleague letter, the U.S. Department of Education spelled out the damage that sexual harassment does in ...

The Evolving NYUAD Identity

Editor’s Note: The following article contains explicit language. Instead of the regular General Assembly schedule of amendments and points ...

Students, Faculty Approve Core Curriculum Proposal

The Faculty Council is a deliberative body that is open to all faculty at NYU Abu Dhabi. In addition, the student body held an open vote on Nov. 22, ...

How effective are Student Government committees?

Although Student Government has numerous committees to advocate for student interests, this semester, several students have carried out initiatives ...

Possible changes to Writing Program with new proposal

Released to the student body on Oct. 21, the new Writing Program proposal intends to create a mandatory, semester-long writing seminar to be taken in ...

Dialogue on Core Curriculum Continues

Since the Oct. 18 release of the draft proposal for the new Core Curriculum, groups on campus have engaged in various discussions on the document's ...

Classist Health

Walk into any store today, even the university Convenience Store, and look for the health food section. Greens and browns will dominate; with words ...

Updates on Campus Wi-Fi

With intermittent Wi-Fi service being characteristic of life on Saadiyat, the NYU Abu Dhabi IT Department, along with Facilities, is mounting a ...

Rugby World Cup Kicks Off

Kicking off on Sept. 18, The Rugby World Cup has inflamed passions among a small sector of the student body, while arousing bemusement across the rest ...

NYU Will Not Compensate Workers Charged With Striking

In a Sept. 14 town hall on labor issues, NYU Abu Dhabi students were given the clearest statement yet on the university’s response to strike actions ...

For Students, Unpaid Internship Opportunities Overtake Part-Time Jobs

Illustration by Chaeri Lee/ The Gazelle For students seeking to expand their résumés, an internship is an attractive way to gain experience and open a ...

Student Government Elections Results

On Saturday, via a post on the NYU Abu Dhabi Student Life Facebook page, the winners for the Student Government elections were announced. Juliana Bello ...

New funding model prompts re-evaluation of Athletic SIGs

On Aug. 20, an email was sent to the leaders of all athletic Student Interest Groups informing them that the Athletics Department will no longer fund ...

Amendment proposed to check powers of Student Government

Last Sunday, at the Sept. 6 General Assembly, an amendment was proposed which if passed would create a new body in the Executive Board and ...

Deportation for Posting Photos Highlights Pitfalls for Students

An Australian woman was arrested and jailed in Abu Dhabi on July 13 this year for posting a photo on Facebook. The photo was of a car parked over two ...

After Nardello: Where to from here?

The Nardello & Co. report on NYU Abu Dhabi’s labor violations was released about three weeks ago, but it’s unclear where this puts NYUAD and in ...

Berlin's Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum: Reflecting Local Life

BERLIN, Germany — Kottbusser Tor is one of the centers of Berlin’s Turkish population. Despite being maligned in some sections of the German press as ...

Core Curriculum’s global requirement sees mixed success

The NYU Abu Dhabi Bulletin for 2014-2015 states that the Core Curriculum “is distinguished by its cross cultural perspective.” For some students, this ...

IS: Resistance and Extremism

Drawing on the teachings of Muhammed Ibn Abd Al Wahhab and Sayyid Qutb, the group that calls itself Islamic State has formed a doctrine of Islam that, ...

Faculty's Choice: A Date That Changed the World

This article is a part of The Gazelle’s new series, Faculty's Choice. Every week, we will ask various faculty divisions about the most influential or ...

Black Box Debut Organs Tissues and Candy Games

On Oct. 13, the NYU Abu Dhabi Theater Program premiered “Organs, Tissues and Candy Games,” a Zoukak Theatre Company collaboration. The piece was ...

Subbing out: sub-contractors and compliance at NYUAD

The NYU Abu Dhabi campus is still a work in progress. Ongoing fit-out projects as well as the transition to main grid power during the Eid al-Adha mean ...

A Conversation on Compliance with Erum Raza

Raza: Our Office upholds the Statement of Labor Values through a number of compliance activities: Firstly, our Office conducts monthly interviews of ...

Switch to mains power scheduled for Eid

From Oct. 5 to Oct. 9, students will be moved into different residence halls to allow NYU Abu Dhabi to switch from generator power to power drawn from ...

New residence policies cause tension

At the beginning of the Fall 2014 semester, students were informed that Residential Assistants would be conducting periodic rounds of all the ...

Sandscapes of Memory; A Different History of the UAE

Gazing around Abu Dhabi, replete with skyscrapers and modern highways, or looking down the Burj Khalifa in Dubai onto an ocean of sand dotted with ...

RAs prohibited from taking on elected positions in Student Life

On Monday, April 28 freshmen Emina Osmandžiković and Rend Beiruti were asked either to withdraw their candidacy for the last Student Government ...

Student Government Elections: Meet the Candidates

Reporting by Connor Pearce. Graphics and interactivity by the Gazelle Multimedia Team. Email desk@thegazelle.org ...

GA moves to create a referendum on Hall Council, Student Government relations

During a special session of the General Assembly held on April 27, senior Amelia Kahn proposed a motion to introduce a resolution calling for the ...

Australia, Canada Going Backwards on Climate Policy

One of the more troubling developments in recent environmental policy is the definitive shift in the policies of both the Canadian and Australian ...

University Senate moves for NYUAD seat despite GA concerns

The NYU University Senate passed an amendment on April 17 that recommended the Board of Trustees create a senator’s position on the Student Senators ...

From Pearl Traders to Saadiyat Construction Workers: A History of Labor in the UAE

The Arabian Gulf and the UAE in particular have a diverse workforce that predates the modern resource-based economy. Connections with India in the ...

Seeing the unseen in Abu Dhabi

Illustration by Brittany Trilford/The Gazelle Every city creates an image of itself to export. Berlin is an artsy hipster hub. In 2004, its mayor Klaus ...

Read local: New laws to restrict alcohol violence in Sydney

Beginning on Feb. 23, new laws came into place in Sydney designed to limit alcohol-fueled violence. The New South Wales state government implemented ...

FIND: Inside a Cultural and Artistic Laboratory

Forming Intersections and Dialogue, or FIND, is a new cultural and artistic laboratory run by NYU Abu Dhabi associate professor of Film and New Media ...

Seeing the unseen in Abu Dhabi

Every city creates an image of itself to export. Berlin is an artsy hipster hub. In 2004, its mayor Klaus Wowereit said “Berlin ist arm, aber sexy” ...

Controversial NYU expansion plan halted by NY State Supreme Court decision

New York City Judge Donna M. Mills blocked NYU’s expansion plan, NYU 2031 on Jan. 7. The decision came after a history of controversy for the plan, ...

Climate change a growing concern, endangers coastal population

On the weekend of Nov. 21, Abu Dhabi had the most rain it has had since the mid-2000s. This was the result of a low-pressure atmospheric system that ...

Shifting Sands and Rapid Change: The UAE Before Oil

The United Arab Emirates has not always been the country in which superlatives were the most common form of comparison. Before the discovery of oil, a ...

NYUAD Identity In Crisis

Only three years young but with a mission to create a new paradigm in higher education, NYU Abu Dhabi is setting itself up for a difficult few years ...

A Drive Through Oman

Oman is often overshadowed by the UAE’s glitz and glam, but the laid-back charm of the wadis and small villages throughout the Hajar Mountains ensure ...

Squares Set to Connect Students Across the UAE

Squares launched its inaugural event on Friday, Oct. 25. This new student-led initiative seeks to connect NYU Abu Dhabi students with 50 students from ...

A Need to Remember: Countries Built on Indigenous Land

Some of the countries that have the least amount of recent conflict on their own soils have been created out of dispute. This chequered history is ...

Travel Tips to Keep in Mind This Eid

When traveling, the most exciting things are the unexpected. These can be frightening and invigorating in equal measure. With this in mind, here are ...

Pedestrians defenseless against car friendly city

Abu Dhabi is all about cars. As transportation or overt status symbols, it is hard to imagine the city without them. But not everyone drives. NYU Abu ...

Websites show a different side of Abu Dhabi

When navigating Abu Dhabi, it may be wise to stand on the shoulders of others. Walking in any direction from Sama Tower could lead one to believe that ...

Travel tips for popular Eid destinations

One of the many exciting aspects of life at NYU Abu Dhabi is the opportunity for travel over Eid break. With Eid al Adha break less than a month away, ...

Policy over personality in political choice

With the Australian election drawing to a close this weekend, there are important lessons to be learned from what has been one of the most confused ...