AIRPORT ROAD 06
The sixth issue of AIRPORT ROAD, the journal of student creative work sponsored by Electra Street, was published in Fall 2017. This issue features original prose, poetry, and visual art by members of NYU’s Global Network student community. Hard copy (gratis) is available from the office of the Dean of Arts & Humanities at NYUAD’s Saadiyat campus.
PROSE
Paula Brečak, Dida and the Red Pipe
Branden Kang, Daddy Manual
Tzy Jiun Tan, Consumerist
Jamie Uy, Daniel in the Desert
Shalini Corea, Roach
Karolis Degutis, A Commentary on Dualism
Alice Huang, Free and Wild
Paula Brečak, Prison Mice
Yu-Chieh (Andrea) Chung, If Only You Knew
Yu-Chieh (Andrea) Chung, Half Baked
Alice Huang, If the City Were a Movie
Harper Cho, Stranded
Jamie Uy, pre-departure
POETRY
Rosy Tahan, Confetti
Vamika Sinha, eldorado cinema
Tzy Jiun Tan, Mother
Ayah Rashid, AMPI-theatre
Tzy Jiun Tan, Get Off My Lawn
Zoe Jane Patterson,The Dancer: A Villanelle
Shamma Al Bastaki, Goals and Stuff
Rosy Tahan, Abecedarian on the Limitations of Language
Zoe Jane Patterson, Ode to Socks
Tzy Jiun Tan, Staged Fright
Tzy Jiun Tan, Long Distance
Paula Brečak, Pass by Romance
Vamika Sinha, Oceans
Reem Almenhali, Day of Judgment
Leanne Talavera, Why I Envy Your Guitar
Paula Brečak, After Midnight Jazz
Sudikchya Shrestha, Pregnant Bitch
Amal Al Shamsi, Last Words/Lost Words
Salha Al Ameri, Paper Cut
Rosy Tahan, Life Sentences
Shalini Corea, The Horse in Battle
Thirangie Jayatilake, Consequence
Alice Huang, Morning Poem
VISUAL
Luis Carlos Soto, Night Shift [Detail] (Front Cover)
Shamma Al Bastaki, Accident (Erasure of Sartre’s The Emotions)
Matthew Tan, Human 20140906
Thirangie Jayatilake, Doorway
Hatim Benhsain,Gigantic
Benjamin Roberts and Geography of Robots, Pop-up Radio at the New Orleans Night Clinic
Nada Al Mosa, Untitled
Nada Al Mosa, Faceless Flower
Maria Paula Calderon Acon, Dementia I
Mariam Raslan, Dancing Flames
Adele Bea Cipste, The Poet
Nada Al Mosa, Lilies
Nada Al Mosa, Roots
Luis Carlos Soto, KZ
Hafsa Ahmed, Wo Durbar / Aik Durbar / Ye Durbar
Kevin Mokhtar, The Rock
Shamma Al Bastaki, Laws (Erasure of Sartre’s The Emotions)
Ethan David Lee, Kestane
Nada Al Mosa, Untitled
Asma Balfaqih, Echoes of Faith
Ethan David Lee, Humans: North Padre Island
Maria Paula Calderon Acon, Tusk
Shamma Al Bastaki, Therefore (Erasure of Sartre’s The Emotions)
Matthew Tan, Human 20140111
Maria Paula Calderon Acon, Perspective II
Hafsa Ahmed, ﺑﺎدﻟﻮ ں ﮐﮯ ﻧﯿﭽﮯ اﭘﻨﺎ ﮔﮭﺮ اﯾﮏ ﮨﻮ ﮔﺎ، ﺟﯿﺴﺎ ﺑﮭﯽ ﮨﻮ ﮔﺎ اﭼﮭﺎ ﻟﮕﮯ ﮔﺎ۔
Valeriya Golovina, Afternoon
Emma Kay Tocci, The Tailor
Lateefa Almazrooei, Home//Despair
Valeriya Golovina, Something Charming about London in the Rain
Emma Kay Tocci, Father and Son at Fish Market
Kevin Mokhtar, Beyond the Fence
Nada Al Mosa, Book Love
Mariam Raslan, Sparks
Maria Paula Calderon Acon, Perspective I
Valeriya Golovina, B&W
Mariam Raslan, Strolling
Nada Al Mosa, Untitled
Luis Carlos Soto, Callejones
Adele Bea Cipste, Age (“The Old Courtesan” by Auguste Rodin in a Charcoal Interpretation)
Hafsa Ahmed, Alone, not Lonely
Asma Balfaqih, Ephemeral
Shamma Al Bastaki, Soup (Cento—Snippets Taken from Sappho, Reznikoff, Maya Angelou, Ancient Egyptian Love Poetry)
Gabrielle Branche, Dancing Girl
Mariam Raslan, Threads
Nada Al Mosa, Untitled
Ethan David Lee, From Above
Hatim Benhsain, Anxiety Deconstructed
Maria Paula Calderon Acon, Loris
Maria Paula Calderon Acon, Ink Practice
Thirangie Jayatilake, Taking a Break
Ethan David Lee, Young Street Musician
Valeriya Golovina, ربابة
Nada Al Mosa, Conflict in Identity
Thirangie Jayatilake, Pillar, pillar in the wall
Hatim Benhsain, Filthy
Shamma Al Bastaki, Draw (Erasure of Sartre’s The Emotions)
Asma Balfaqih, Retrouville
Luis Carlos Soto, Night Shift
Valeriya Golovina, Child’s Gaze (Back Cover)