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...
Here's how the opening Iftar dinner was described in the cover article of The Review, the Abu Dhabi National's Friday magazine: Besides, if the students seemed slightly starry-eyed during the introductory portion of that Iftar welcome banquet, they got the chance to...
One of the concepts that I deliberately left unaddressed in the lecture that I recorded for the NYAUD Summer Colloquium was fallibilism, which Appiah discusses in his chapter on counter-cosmopolitanism. Appiah describes falliblism as "the sense that our knowledge is...
The final touches were being put on the Ramadan tent this morning: carpets, chairs, stage, audiovisual system, and air conditioning all in place. Meanwhile, back at the Sama tower, the Welcome Center was getting ready for the arrival of the students ... And tonight...
One of the things that I have loved about attending the Candidate Weekends at NYU Abu Dhabi is hearing about all the different kinds of music that the candidates have on their iPods. So I'm asking for help from those of you who have attended one of the weekends: I...
I'm back in Abu Dhabi for another Candidate Weekend. As I did during the November Candidate Weekend, I gave a 75-minute class on "Cosmopolitanism Now," which resulted in a very lively discussion about the nature of cosmopolitanism and both opportunities and problems...
I picked up the first two seasons of the television show Freej at one of the duty-free shops in the Abu Dhabi airport. Freej is a 3D animated cartoon produced in Dubai, which has been a big hit in the Emirates since it debuted in 2006. The series depicts the lives of...
Zoroastrianism was mentioned in John McCain's interview last week on the ABC morning television show The View. (It happens at 2:10 in the YouTube clip above.) Trying to get McCain to talk about the implications of his choice of Sarah Palin to be running mate, Whoopi...
"The greatest late September collapse in the history of major league baseball is now complete." That's what Mets' announcer Gary Cohen said after Luis Castillo struck out to end the team's 162nd game, an 8-1 loss in which the Mets trailed 7-0 after the first half...