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January 15, 2012 by cptwitter

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-15

In rainy Beirut for #CASAR2012 "Shifting Borders: America and the Middle East/North Africa." First time here. Beautiful seaside campus. # Suad Abdul-Kabeer (Purdue) on "Muslim Cool": emergent practice; performance of blackness as a way of creating Muslim identity. #CASAR2012 # Blackout at the moment; sitting in the dark listening to our speaker. Several power outages [...]

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November 13, 2011 by cptwitter

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-13

In NYC, rats on the train tracks; in Sawai Madhopur: wild boar. #India # Exploring old Purana Quila fort in Delhi: luxuriously deserted because it's the morning of a festival day. #India #

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November 6, 2011 by cptwitter

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-06

We've come to Delhi for Eid. The air is cool and smoky as we are driven to our hotel. It's 4:40 am. # Driving in Abu Dhabi is child's play compared to navigating the streets of Delhi. Lanes? Bah! Glad it's not me driving. # "Snake Driving": that's what our driver calls the way Indians [...]

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August 30, 2011 by Cyrus Patell

Summer Colloquium 2011

Last year, the inaugural class of NYU Abu Dhabi was invited to read the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah’s book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers as part of a virtual summer colloquium called “Cosmopolitan Ideas for Global Citizens.” After reading the book, students participated in online discussions led by NYUAD philosophy professor Matthew Silverstein, [...]

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August 28, 2011 by Cyrus Patell

Another Year, Another Marhaba Week

A little under a year ago, NYUAD held an Iftar dinner for the Class of 2014 in a Ramadan tent set up in the parking lot of the Downtown Campus. I had the honor of giving a talk on that evening on the subject of “fallibilism.” There were newspaper reporters present on that night and [...]
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