Homesickness

Our experience of homesickness tells us that we have places of comfort. It speaks to us of the people we love in our different homes.

Kid Koala Takes NYUAD This Week

Kid Koala will perform Nufonia Must Fall at the NYUAD Arts Center on May 11 and May 12.

Finding Shelter in Counselling

On finding your emotional shelter, how important it is to find your safe emotional space where it's okay not to be okay.

A Call for Sexual Education in U.K. Schools

Double math class, pop quizzes, sexual harassment: three unpleasant experiences that many students have to go through at senior school, only two of which are necessary.

On Adjusting Back

Freshmen aren’t the only ones feeling new or lost: a senior’s tale of readjusting back to Abu Dhabi and NYUAD after study abroad.

Brexit: Leave or Remain, it's Time to Come Together

NEW YORK CITY, U.S.A. — Waking up the morning after the referendum of the United Kingdom’s membership of European Union was a surreal experience, akin ...

Hypocrisy of the Tampon Tax

ACCRA, Ghana — The free condom versus free tampon conversation has raged on in the wake of the tampon tax debates in the U.K. and U.S., so I was ...

Exhaustion and Study Abroad

ACCRA, Ghana — Never have I hit a brick wall quite like the one that stood in my way the night before I left for Ghana. The prospect of living in a new ...

Growing older, growing wiser

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 started ...

Our Greatest Struggles This Week

Everybody has the perfect life according to social media. Through carefully curated content, we present the ideal but often distorted version of ...

Take The Bloody Tax Off Tampons

This week, members of the U.K. parliament voted against a proposal to abolish the 5 percent value-added tax on sanitary products, a move that ...

A Q&A on Mental Health with Health and Wellness Director

Whether it's a first time appointment or routine counseling, mental health services can be a huge boon for students dealing with the stressful ...

Responding to Chelsea F.C. racism in Paris

PARIS, France — Commuters in Paris were shocked recently when a group of Chelsea F.C. fans prevented a black man from boarding the metro, chanting ...

Kids on Saadiyat

We see them scooting around the highline or hanging around the activity zone, but, for the most part, a child is an elusive figure at NYU Abu Dhabi. ...