MetaFilter posts tagged with abudhabi

NYU in the Emirates?

oldleada — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:58:00 -0800

Is the world ready for a global university? Apply now! (via) About every other Friday for most of the past year, John Sexton, the president of New York University, would duck away from his offices above Washington Square to teach a small seminar class on the American separation of church and state. Sexton has always maintained a full professor's teaching load, which is unusual for the chief executive of a large university. What was even more unusual in this case was that the class met 11,000 kilometres away, in Abu Dhabi.

Virtucon alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year!

gman — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:07:10 -0800

Emirates Palace, a seven-star Hotel in Abu-Dhabi, is offering up the world's most expensive vacation.

Skyscrapers or Souks?

Non Prosequitur — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:16:20 -0800

Two visions of the ideal city rise in the Persian Gulf: "Waterfront City will probably be where a lot of Middle Eastern investors will put their money—and where international architectural stars will build their putative landmarks—but if little Masdar develops successfully, it may hold much more important lessons for us all."

U.S. Kills Journalists.

waldo — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 07:25:45 -0800

U.S. Kills Journalists. Three journalists in the Palestine Hotel -- which is known as many reporters' base in Baghdad -- have died after the building was bombed by U.S. forces. Simultaneously, U.S. forces hit Al-Jazeera's Abu Dhabi offices with a missle. Officials claim that they were responding to sniper fire, but journalists dispute the claim. Some journalists believe that this was a deliberate attack. Is the U.S. making good on their threat to "target down" journalists?

Davezilla — Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:36:03 -0800

Is the DFLP responsible? The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) has reportedly claimed responsibility for the attacks on the World Trade Center. This report, from a television station in Abu Dhabi, is unconfirmed. The attacks differ significantly from the DFLP's previous methods of operation. Likewise, the resources and infrastructure necessary for such attacks are far beyond the group's traditional means. Either the DFLP's claims are spurious, or it has joined forces with other groups.