NYU Tel Aviv Site Director Benjamin Hary provides an update:
Greetings from NYU Tel Aviv!
Sixteen bright students are currently attending NYU Tel Aviv and they all tell me that they are very happy here. They come from CAS, Liberal Studies (including GLS), Steinhardt, Stern and NYU Shanghai. Their interests range from science to politics, religion and language, language studies, history and archeology, business and entrepreneurship and innovations (which is so typical to Israel). We are all excited about the possibility of doubling the number of our students in the fall.
NYU Tel Aviv is experiencing much excitement and growth. We just completed the construction of the third floor of your beautiful dormitories; consequently, students enjoy first-rate modern accommodations with a beautiful shared kitchen and lounge! Furthermore, we are in final negotiations for a new building for our offices and classes and we hope to launch it in the Fall of 2016. We are also experiencing growth in our staff and consequently reorganizing the administration structure at NYU Tel Aviv.
Please note that we have some new courses, which may have not been uploaded to our webpage yet. In addition to our regular science, business and history/politics courses in the spring, we will offer Crossroads of Empires and Conflicts: Jaffa and Tel Aviv in Modernity, taught by our popular Dr. Martin Wein, using extensive academic walking tours in the city and ample opportunities for interactive fieldwork. We will also offer Queering the Middle East, exploring LGBTQ issues in the Middle East in historical perspective and asking how Tel Aviv has become a “Gay Mecca.” The course can be accompanied with an internship at a LGBTQ organization in Tel Aviv. In fact, we are very proud of our flagship Internship program at NYU Tel Aviv.
Tel Aviv is a vibrant city and students have a fantastic time here. We are having a great weather now, in the 70s, and people are out and about, working at cafés around the town (and the cappuccino here is simply superb!) or even walking or jogging along the Mediterranean. Recent violence that erupted at some areas in Israel and the Palestinian Authority has not really been felt in Tel Aviv and we are all hopeful for peace and quiet.
Here are some pictures from our recent trips to the western Galilee and the Dead Sea!