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Akkasah explores the histories and contemporary practices of photography in the Arab world from comparative perspectives: it fosters the scholarly study of these histories and practices in dialogue with other photographic cultures and traditions from around the world.
Keywords: Photography, Middle East, Arab, UAE, Vernacular
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AIM Lab research interests include the conception, engineering, and utilization of novel haptic interfaces as a new media in Human-Computer Interaction.
Keywords: Haptics, Medical Simulation, Neurohaptics, Affective Haptics, Vibrotactile Stimulation
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The United Nations estimates over 60 percent of the population will live in urban areas by 2030. This rapid rate of urbanization is putting strain on urban systems and posing new challenges across a multitude of sectors. The Center for the Interacting Urban Networks has been established at NYU Abu Dhabi to develop fundamental research that can be translated into pragmatic ideas for increasing the livability of our cities.
Keywords: CITIES, Urban Networks, Urban Science, Sustainable Future
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Dhakira works in close cooperation with scholars, heritage communities, heritage authorities, and UNESCO to address the many regional and global challenges of the relatively young discipline of heritage studies.
Keywords: Heritage Communities, Memory, Conservation Science, Maritime Underwater Cultural Heritage Landscapes, Archaeology
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In the Middle East and North Africa, it is estimated that more than 80 percent of businesses are family-owned and run. This project brings together scholars from across the disciplines to compile, document and analyze the history of selected regional family businesses to better understand past challenges and decision-making, as well as commercial legacies.
Keywords: Family Business, Histories, MENA, MENASA
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Gazelien Records was founded in 2018 by students of the Recording and Production Techniques (RPT) class as a platform to provide academic and Music Industry based experience to meet the growing interest of the NYU Abu Dhabi Music Program Students in order to provide them with real-world opportunities.
Keywords: Music Technology, Audio Signal Processing, Sound Engineering, Sound Design
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Global Asia is an interdisciplinary network of faculty working on Asia in the broadest sense.
Keywords: Global Asia, Asian Studies, Himalaya, Environmental Studies
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The NYUAD Institute has embarked on a multi-year research fellowship
program in the Humanities. This program aims to help create an
energetic, multi-faceted research environment for the Humanities and the
study of the Arab world at NYUAD's campus.
Keywords: Humanities, Arab World, Heritage Studies, Anthropology, History
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The Library of Arabic Literature offers Arabic editions and English translations of significant works of Arabic literature, with an emphasis on the 7th to 19th centuries.
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The Music and Sound Cultures (MaSC) research laboratory is a collective of researchers focusing on the multidisciplinary study of music from the Arab World and neighboring regions through computational and humanistic methods.
Keywords: Music, Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Ethnomusicology, Music Information Retrieval
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Keywords: Bronze Age Boat, Zayed National Museum, Boat Replica Experimental Archaeology, Maritime Heritage, Dhakira
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The NYUAD Research Kitchens are thematic hubs for building communities of researchers across disciplinary boundaries. They seek to provide spaces for new conversations and to support exploratory, innovative research and creative collaborations.
Keywords: Anthropocene, Rights, Heritage, Global Pedagogy, Writing
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In response to the severe dearth of graded reader fiction in Arabic and
the absence of any scale of simplification, the main objective of the
project is to create a standard for the simplification of modern fiction
in Arabic to school-age learners and to use this standard to simplify a number of Arabic fiction masterpieces.
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Carlos Guedes, associate arts professor, takes his classes to Sir Bani Yas Island to record free-roaming animals and birds. The recordings are then uploaded onto an interactive website.
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The Visual Design Lab is an interdisciplinary design research lab that fosters collaboration between Arts and Humanities, other NYUAD departments, and local and regional partners through the practice of visual design. Its projects explore how the field of visual communication intersects with accessibility, cognition, philosophy, policy, and culture.
Keywords: Design, Visual Design, Philosophy, Design Thinking, Communication
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al Mawrid, the Arab Center for the Study of Art undertakes research in the visual art and photography of Western Asia and North Africa through a variety of disciplinary approaches. The Center aims to move research and pedagogy beyond the established canons of Art History by investigating the histories and theories of art that are particular to the region from regional perspectives. It does so in collaborative dialogue with the methods and debates of a global Art History and with the widening cultural horizons in both the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
Keywords: Arab, Art, Photography, Art History, Archive
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NYUAD eARThumanities Research Initiative is emphasizing the significance of the arts in this wider conversation, while also drawing on the social sciences and the physical sciences and engineering to foster interdisciplinary dialogue. The Near East and Northern and Eastern Africa are seriously under-researched in major aspects of their human and environmental relations. The research and study of their past and present challenges is of crucial importance as we move forward into a period of increased demographic pressure and global climate change.
Keywords: Environment , Sustainability, Interdisciplinary, Himalaya, Urban Environments
