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NYUAD Team Wins Hult Global Case Challenge
28 April, 2012

Former US President Bill Clinton presented an international group of New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) students with the top prize for their solution to providing solar lighting to one million homes in Africa by 2013 at the finals of the Hult Global Case Challenge in New York on Thursday. Four NYUAD sophomore students, along with an NYU alumnus, were up against top student teams in the final stages of the international competition, emerging as one of three winners from the initial 4,000 participating teams. The NYUAD team was the sole finalist in its track that did not include any graduate students.

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Events in Abu Dhabi

Wages of Fear/La Salaire de la peur

May 17, 2012 | 7:00-9:00 PM | NYUAD Downtown Campus, Abu Dhabi
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Journeys in Film History | Open to the Public

Based on 15 years of original research, this lecture utilizes historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the US, and Africa to build a new theory of prosperity in the modern world.

In collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Film Festival

 

Events in New York

Beautiful Resistance: Theatre, Dance, and Photography in Palestine

May 23, 2012 | 7:00-8:30 PM
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Abdelfattah Abusrour Founder and Director of Alrowwad Cultural and Theatre Society In Aida Camp, West Bank

Alrowwad Cultural and Theatre Society's mission is to empower "the community, with [a] focus on children, youth and women, and promotion and respect of human values of human rights through arts and education as beautiful means of self-expression and non-violent resistance against the ugliness of Occupation and its violence." Abusrour will discuss and show examples of the theatre, dance, film, and photography created by children in the Aida refugee camp that highlight the hope that we can make a change for our children and the generations to come.



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