The Gazelle
Feb 9, 2026
Marija is a senior majoring in Social Research & Public Policy. She is a full-time Macedonian, part-time writer and an occasional undefeated charades champion.
Marija Janeva
Allegations of “sniper safaris”, or wealthy foreigners participating in shooting civilians during the Sarajevo Siege, have been brought to prosecutors in Italy. Here is everything we know so far.
Yana Peeva
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.
A strict attendance policy confines students to the classroom without realistically considering their futures.
Class is a two-minute walk from bed – convenient, right? But what is the price to pay for comfort when our workplace morphs into our personal lives?
“Even a few lives can push the needle.”
Does Gen Z’s tendency to use self-infantilizing humor as a coping mechanism do more harm to our personal growth than good?
Seeing the beauty in the world does not take away your right to fight for change or feel empathy for everything less, and far worse, than beautiful. Loving the beauty through the darkness is an act of bravery.
Serbia’s student-led protests call into spotlight corruption, autocracy, and surveillance prompted by a tragic railway station collapse that claimed 15 lives.
Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke started a haka against a controversial bill that entered New Zealand’s parliament, which threatens Maori rights.
The annual Open Campus Day at NYUAD took place over the past weekend with many prospective students and their families visiting the Saadiyat campus.
Western media reduces Slavic people to damaging stereotypes. It’s time to break these clichés and advocate for true, diverse representation.
I grew up scoffing at patriotic poems and dreaming of living abroad. Revisiting Macedonia and its poetry gifted me the feeling of no longer being a stranger in the room I occupied.
Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, and Canada submitted a statement at the UNGA, calling for the Taliban to be tried before the ICJ for gender discrimination after new Taliban reform for women's virtue laws.
Throughout the summer of 2024, mass protests across more than 10 Serbian cities took place as a reaction to a lithium mining project. What has happened since then and what will follow?
Narratives about what girlhood and femininity online have led to the creation of the “princess treatment” trend. But when it comes to women’s relationships offline, this discourse hides unexpected dangers.
Challenging the notion of interpersonal relationships as transactional, and reflecting on the true meaning of community.
Studying away can be a lovely growth arch for a lot of members of this community, but it is definitely not the only way to grow.
As an institution and community that prides itself on its diversity, it is imperative to address diverse student experiences, especially with regard to disabilities, without the lens of ableism