Posts Tagged ‘NYU’

French Trains Are Being Turned Into Moving Art Museums

Instead of encouraging people to visit their world-famous landmarks, France’s national state-owned rail service SNCF has come up with a fantastic idea. They’ve decided to bring these landmarks to you, and you can enjoy them at your leisure during your morning commute to work. Working in collaboration with American manufacturing company 3M, the SNCF has […]

American University of Beirut students protest in support of Steven Salaita as school president intervenes to cancel hiring process

Students at the American University of Beirut have been organizing on campus since AUB President Fadlo Khuri canceled the hiring of Professor Steven Salaita based on accusations of ‘procedural irregularities’ during the hiring process. As a #StudentsforSalaita press release explained, “Students are concerned this controversy follows Salaita’s persecution at UIUC, as well as the changing perspectives within […]

Trump, Sanders and the battle of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for blue collar Arabs and whites

Bay Ridge, Brooklyn would scare the living daylights out of a Norwegian racist against Arabs. Once an enclave of immigrants from Norway — they still have a parade every year — an influx of Arab immigrants in the 1980s and 1990s turned it into a place where you can eat lutefisk for lunch and samak […]

Iranian book among best sellers on ISIL

‘War and Sexual Adventure in ISIS’ written by Iranian author Amirreza Porhelm was released by the American publication ‘Supreme Century’ in English language in April 2015 and reached global book networks sooner than any other title on the same topic. Other books on the ISIL that were published months after Porhelm’s include ‘The Complete Infidel’s […]

Russian port city of Vladivostok hit by icy tempest

     Russia’s Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok has been hit hard by gusts of freezing wind reaching speeds of 25 meters per second causing sea water to freeze over anything the giant waves touched.      This Thursday Vladivostok’s port turned into a giant slushy machine as sea water mixed with sand started freezing under […]

Robert De Niro gives amazing graduation speech to NYU grads

NYU Tisch Salute is the Tisch School of the Arts’ unique celebration marking the achievements of the graduating class of 2015. Double Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro told NYU’s art school grads Friday congratulations and then quickly added, “And you’re f—–.” De Niro’s startling and salty words at the commencement for the […]

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