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Mariam Khan<\/strong>, a junior double-majoring in journalism and history, was born and raised in Dubai, before moving to Long Island. Part of her decision to study at NYU Abu Dhabi for the 2022-2023 was to spend time in her childhood country again. She aspires to work in the journalism field post graduation, but is always interested and open to see where life takes her.<\/p>\n Particular areas of interest include the media landscape, history, and culture conservation of the UAE.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Passion to Profession: Rise of Women Entrepreneurs in the UAE<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n UAE\u2019s Residents Accelerate Towards E-scooters<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n Mask-Free City Tackles Tourism and Public Health Safety<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n Childhood Passions Turned Career Mariam Khan, a junior double-majoring in journalism and history, was born and raised in Dubai, before moving to Long Island. Part of her decision to study at NYU Abu Dhabi for the 2022-2023 was to spend time in her childhood country again. She aspires to work in the journalism field post graduation, but is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snapshots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} <\/h4>\n
Dispatches by Mariam Khan<\/h4>\n
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\nWhen UAE-born Shehzeen Jamil moved abroad to pursue a master\u2019s in finance, she got much more than a degree…<read more><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n![\"Group](\"https:\/\/wp.nyu.edu\/dispatches\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24651\/2023\/01\/scooter-repair-shop-150x150.jpg\")
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\nCars stretch along the 8-kilometer waterfront neighborhood, bumper to bumper \u2014 a typical weekday evening in Abu Dhabi. On a parallel side path, scooter riders speed along the pavement past the traffic…<read more><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n![\"Basketball](\"https:\/\/wp.nyu.edu\/dispatches\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24651\/2023\/01\/Khan-News-150x150.jpg\")
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\nIn early October, more than 18,000 cheering fans gathered in the Etihad Arena to watch the Milwaukee Bucks and Atlanta Hawks play at the NBA Abu Dhabi Games…<read more><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n![\"Young](\"https:\/\/wp.nyu.edu\/dispatches\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24651\/2023\/01\/Vamika-Sinha-150x150.jpeg\")
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\n<\/strong><\/a>College students who graduated in the height of the pandemic in spring 2020 faced a nonexistent job market with everyone sheltering at home. So upon graduation, NYU Abu Dhabi grad Vamika Sinha launched a freelance journalism career and continued writing for her own online magazine, Postscript… <read more><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"