by Fadi Chahine On the 29th of January, Al Mawakeb high-school students headed to the Dubai opera for an experience that was a first for many of the attendees. Students and teachers alike filed into the theater in anticipation of a play they’d booked for months ago: Othello. As everyone settled into their seats, the… Continue reading Othello: A Tale of Jealous Minds
Category: 2018-2019 Archives
Euphoria
by Salma El Etreby For Hind and Iyaa Anxiety. Fear. Fright. Confusion. Exhaustion. Those were just a few of the things I felt on my way to the Chevron Reader’s Cup Competition. The Chevron Reader’s Cup is a reading competition held every year by the Emirates Airlines Literature Festival. I had already participated in it… Continue reading Euphoria
Poem: Bella Ciao My Love
by Abdelfettah Erbai This imaginative poem is set during the Italian Civil War (1943-1945). The speaker is a Republican telling his wife that he will be part of a glorious fight for freedom. People are awakening outside my window Makes my adulation to sunlight even more Listening to the people’s march crescendo I can’t belie… Continue reading Poem: Bella Ciao My Love
Harvard Model Congress: An Unparalleled Experience
by Ayyan Ali Over the past weekend, AMSI students went to the American University in Dubai to participate in the Harvard Model Congress. Harvard Model Congress (HMC) is an American government simulation for high school students developed and led by Harvard University students. The conference lasted for three days, and during this time, students took… Continue reading Harvard Model Congress: An Unparalleled Experience
HMC 2019: An Experience to Remember
by Hisham Fazail MUN has always been this wonderful, stressful, delightful experience from the hours of research to the wonderful debate all the way to that rush of adrenaline at the award ceremony. HMC Dubai 2019 was perhaps the perfect embodiment of all of this. We as a delegation were given our topics and immediately… Continue reading HMC 2019: An Experience to Remember
Grieve by Pen
by Hashim Riyan No, never again will the stars align for Images of Imagination seem so Frail; yet all I have Left now in my aching heart is my bold Ballad be it said stale; Through my sickly sights of vision prescribed, Pill by pill, dared I to dream, dream Again Fables untold by Blue I bled… Continue reading Grieve by Pen
Sonnet: Love is a Lie
by Rama Celine Mahmalji I often stand along and ask myself, what is love Is it the feeling that fills the emptiness in our souls, Or is it the butterflies that in thy stomach evolve, Oh, maybe it is just a way to ourselves console How many times do you fall in the dark Once,… Continue reading Sonnet: Love is a Lie
How to Decide Your Major
by Marina Markarian The task of choosing your educational path is no easy one. It takes a lot of critical thinking and analysis to understand the person you are and the person you want to become. The average student changes his or her career approximately 5 to 7 times. This normalizes the pressures of narrowing… Continue reading How to Decide Your Major
Listening to Her Speak
by Jana Waleed Listening to her speak, I was engulfed by the utter tenderness of her color. Just the sight of her speech sufficed to thaw out my frigid emotions, but not for long; I’d wait for months to view this orange color again. In the midst all this orange, I sensed a faint shadow… Continue reading Listening to Her Speak
A Moral Dilemma
by Sara Tahlak I was only 16 years old at the time when I had been faced with the biggest challenge that would change my life forever, and here is how it all began. I was born an only child into a family of peasants in a small village located not too far away from… Continue reading A Moral Dilemma