The Gazelle
Feb 9, 2026
Zoe H
But what about the existential musings of female characters, their passions and their philosophical obsessions?
We were in automotive mutiny, and I was in southeast Detroit with a flat tire.
Sala Shaker
A revised version of the poem “If—” by Rudyard Kipling. If you say something in class and only look to your male counterparts for a response or a nod ...
In literary fiction today, there exists a profound anxiety over the complex female character — and where she could possibly be. For years, we’ve had ...
Joey Bui
The departure of one of NYU Abu Dhabi’s two counselors, announced on Dec. 14 in a school-wide email, highlights the instability, shortage and disorder ...
On Dec. 10, NYU Abu Dhabi administration sent an email advising the university community to avoid drinking the tap water on campus. A Student Portal ...
Where do you know yourself best? Few people find the answer to this question on a cluster of map coordinates. Though we are often asked for home cities ...
Last week, The Gazelle published an article covering the draft proposal for changes to the Core Curriculum. The ensuing response was surprising in both ...
This week, students opened their sketchbooks and studios and, for a single night, transformed the Arts Center into a miniature circuit of stations ...
This semester, at least two students have seen their IDs temporarily frozen by the Office of Public Safety for not coming down to their offices when ...
Last night, for the first time in a long while, I did something with concern for my own health in mind. I had been working in the study room of my dorm ...
One night last September, an unusual sight appeared on the campus High Line. Spread outside of A6, a small, blue kiddie pool drew students to the ...
A fundamental change to the structure of Student Government passed quietly this September, resulting in the addition of a body that will resemble a new ...
As of Sept. 17, the student meal plan at NYU Abu Dhabi has been changed from 12 to 14 meal swipes a week. The increase comes as the result of multiple ...
As a form of entertainment or a source of news, podcasts are often passed over in favor of TV shows or the more easily skimmable news site. But shows ...
A row of seven red telephone booths lines the western and eastern walls in Saigon’s Central Post Office. In the ‘80s, my mother took nine of her ...
Wrists laced with flowers and plates loaded with food were two common sights at the West Forum on Saturday, where the university's Pakistan Student ...
After a heavily debated student election, the Elections Commission released the results of this semester's NYU Abu Dhabi Student Government Executive ...
While resolving one debate, this week’s special session of the General Assembly has given rise to several others — framed, for the most part, inside ...
In a decision over who can and cannot run, this semester’s student elections has snagged onto a problem of constitutional interpretation, revealing NYU ...
For Arabic students, the mid-semester slump presents an all too real danger. Assignment sheets and an endless procession of vocabulary lists may have ...
The university's Arab Culture Club held the year's first and only Arab Culture Night on April 11, in which students aimed to share food, dance, poetry ...
Both scholar and activist, NYU Professor Andrew Ross also became the center of a media storm this March when he was denied entry into the UAE at ...
On March 18, a university-wide email announced the appointment of Andrew Hamilton as NYU's 16th president, following current President John Sexton's ...
From March 5 to 7, students in the university's Colloquial Arabic: Levantine Arabic course, which teaches the Arabic dialects spoken around Syria, ...
In conjunction with Student Government's Sustainability Committee, ADNH Compass will be introducing a reusable container system for those on campus ...
Zoe Hu is editor-in-chief. Email her at feedback@gzl.org ...
On a Thursday night last semester, senior Jack Dickson and junior Krishan Mistry decided to move their residence building furniture onto the High Line ...
Over the course of the semester, sustainability has nudged its way to the forefront of our community’s thinking, in both the university's daily life ...
A flick of the finger and you're scrolling through all the musings, witticisms and throwaway thoughts of the people living within a 1.5 mile radius of ...
Over the semester, an empty conference room in the Arts Center has served as the locale for a weekly informal gathering among friends, shambled ...
At NYU Abu Dhabi, there are many university-wide policies guiding and checking our academic trajectories, often giving way to schedule deliberations, ...
After a 48-hour voting period beginning from 7 Feb. and ending today at 1 p.m., sophomore Patrick Sheldon Wee has been elected to Student Government as ...
Candidate Weekend on Saadiyat is a dangerous time; the sight of future NYU Abu Dhabi students, boasting eager smiles and a certain brand of ...
Every day, 75 kg of food is wasted in the leftovers scraped from trays, bowls and plates at the cleaning counters of NYU Abu Dhabi’s dining venues. ...
On the Saadiyat campus, there are certain residential buildings where elevator access spans all floors, from the basement level to the higher student ...
This article comes from the Global Desk, a collaboration between The Gazelle, WSN and On Century Avenue. Read more by searching ‘global.’ Morocco is a ...
This article comes from the Global Desk, a collaboration between The Gazelle, WSN and On Century Avenue. Read more by searching ‘global.’ RABAT, ...
Preparing for college is overwhelming, and amidst the stressful hurricane of packing lists, visa applications, student forms, roommate selections and ...
I knew something was wrong even before the light started blinking. My car had gone over the pothole. The traitorous front tire had jumped over the ...
DETROIT, U.S.A. — Football is hard to ignore. Whether the scores are announced on your city streets or your Facebook timeline, the sport follows you ...
MADRID — Wind power was Spain's main source of electricity for the year 2013, a historical development that has generated optimism among the country's ...
On Jan. 25, 2014, after two years of drafts and 200 historic votes, Tunisia’s national assembly passed a landmark constitution. It has since been ...
Hamza Al Araimi is an admissions officer at NYU Abu Dhabi. In an interview with The Gazelle, Al Araimi reflects upon the UAE and his experience of ...
Costanza Maio
It was a familiar scene to any college student. Old takeout containers, cardboard carcasses of pizza boxes and miniature monuments of stacked Red Bulls ...
The Downtown Campus was transformed on Nov. 15 to celebrate the university's first United States of America & Canada Night. Regional booths ...
While we master Electra Street traffic patterns and the art of directions-giving in Abu Dhabi — take a left here, then a right, then pass this ...
The Belgian Café is a cozy, aptly-named restaurant at the Intercontinental Hotel, and perhaps the only place in Abu Dhabi where one can enjoy the ...
Andres Rodriguezz
Director Marc Silver is all about the details. His film “Who is Dayani Cristal?” takes time to emphasize the little things — dirty bus windows, the ...
Alistair Blacklock
Kristina Bogos
Themed “Leveraging the Digital World,” the 2013 Abu Dhabi Media Summit began on Oct. 21 with an online video interview connecting the Yas Viceroy Hotel ...
Sophomore Harry Hyun Woo Jo has some unconventional plans for his junior year. While his classmates envision their semesters cushioned in Saadiyat ...
A desk can reveal a lot about its owner. The Student Interest Group forms, travel trinkets and crumpled homework that scatter our workspaces can ...
Nino Cricco
Whether you’ve freshly arrived from New York study abroad and are already missing the thrifty, hipster oasis of Bushwick, or you’re experiencing the ...
The term World’s Honors College was originally coined to create a clear and simple idea of what the university aspired to become, especially in ...
In his recent op-ed piece for The New York Times, journalist Jim Sleeper opened his argument with a biting metaphor, describing NYU Shanghai’s ...
Exploring Abu Dhabi is important, but when you’re already battling humidity, lanes of snarled traffic and ambiguous street names, the last thing you ...
For the NYU Abu Dhabi student body, a new school year is synonymous with change. The end of August always brings fresh faces, exciting events, Student ...
Packing — the age-old, noble practice of attempting to cram one’s entire life into a tiny bag — is a necessity, and it is something you will become an ...
It’s something we all joke about. Flippant, we sling around phrases like “Sama Bubble” and “sleep deprivation.” We bemoan essays, readings, the ...
Photo by Jourdan Enriquez/The Gazelle The college application process is a common experience that, at a university swarming with differences and ...
Photo courtesy of Alejandra Pinto Miguel Junior Alejandra Pinto Miguel had always been interested in taking part in a publication. After contributing ...
Photo by Alistair Blacklock/The Gazelle “In this building, it gets pretty monotonous,” said NYUNY junior Nate Chumley. Behind him, Sama Tower’s windows ...
Photo courtesy of Sanyu Kiyimba Kisaka Jutting out in a catwalk-esque shape, the stage of the Odyssey provided an intimate viewing experience. Audience ...
Photo courtesy of Amelia Kahn In a world echoing with the beeps and bloops of Facebook chat, study abroad no longer requires a definitive goodbye. When ...
Photo by Julia Saubier/The Gazelle As forms for housing, courses and study abroad applications pile on top of desks and trickle into email inboxes, NYU ...
Photo by Jourdan Enriquez/The Gazelle On April 10, the NYUAD Community Code was made public after a little more than a year since its initial proposal. ...
Photo via flickr.com When your only criteria for food is quick and college-budget friendly, it is easy to get sucked into a blackhole of endless Sama ...
Photo by Bailey Theado It is not often that you can walk up to admire a piece of artwork and find yourself staring back from its surface. But that is ...
Photo by Alistair Blacklock/The Gazelle With small class sizes and accomplished professors hailing from all over the Arab world, the Arabic department ...
Photo credit: Nina Bayatti/The Gazelle Mariko Kuroda is a small girl with big dreams. A dainty force to be reckoned with, Kuroda has ambitious goals ...
Photo credit: Courtesy of Sala Shaker From the abundance of health advice students receive from parents, doctors and old episodes of “Barney & ...
