Literature and Creative Writing
Retelling Hamlet in Elsinore
Julián Carrera investigates a video game that retells Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
6 More (Lists) of 12 (Novels)
The second installment of our “12 Novels” project features lists by Sabyn Javeri, Lauren Kata, Taneli Kukkonen, Sunny Liu, Ken Nielsen, and Deborah Lindsay Williams.
6 (Lists) of 12 (Novels)
We kick off the “12 Things” project with lists of novels by Aathma Dious, Ria Golovakova, Judy Miller, Carlo Pizzati, and Jim Traub.
Narrativizing the Refugee
Chiran Pandey explores the strengths and limitations of Caroline Brothers’s novel Hinterland.
Beyond Journalism
Zoe Patterson reads Caroline Brothers’s Hinterland and reflects on what a novel can do that journalism can’t.
An Upturned Bucket List
Vamika Sinha thinks about global migrations via a reading of Caroline Brothers’s novel Hinterland.
Poems
Poems by NYUAD first-year student Andrew Riad.
Three Poems
Three poems by Rooftop Rhythms veteran Alton Ramsey.
Three Poems
Three poems by Dorian Paul Rogers, the guiding spirit of Rooftop Rhythms in Abu Dhabi.
The Burkini Ban
Why do some private resorts in the Arab world choose to ban burkinis?
Two Poems
Two poems: “Music Lesson for Beginners” and “The Ending Passage.”
Pathemari
Giving voice to the pathemari, boats that the first Malayalee expats used to make their way to UAE in the 1960s.