Archive for the 'abu dhabi' Category

There and Back..

there.. from yumna on Vimeo. …and back from yumna on Vimeo. The new year has been off to an amazing start. Here’s some video footage from the Middle East and back home in NYC. Enjoy! xoxox

The Yas Hotel

My baby boy Brian (amazingly talented guy, I highly recommend that you check his work out!) told me about The Yas Hotel before I came out to Abu Dhabi. I immediately knew it was something I had to see while I was here. It’s located on Yas Island which recently hosted the Formula 1 Etihad [...]

Hi! I’m Here!

Greetings from Abu Dhabi! I got here a day after my last final, it feels so nice to sleep in and just r e l a x. Seems like I just missed the snow storms back in NYC, ha! It looks gorgeous out there even though I know you guys are freezing your butts off. [...]

Read This

(click image to enlarge) The National is a new English-language daily newspaper that was launched in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, last year. Fatima Al-Shamsi’s column has become my favorite weekly read. She’s an Emirati going to school in New York and reminds me a lot of myself! This article particularly took my [...]

Sheikh Zayed’s Grand Mosque

click to see the rest this morning we woke up early and went to the late sheikh zayed’s mosque in abu dhabi. he’s buried there (creeeeppyyy) and it’s one of the biggest mosques in the world. it’s absolutely beautiful, there was so much detail in every square inch, everything was perfect. in case you didn’t [...]

abu dhabi

see the rest here abu dhabi is the capital of the UAE.. all government centers, palaces and riches are found here. this is where all the money is in the UAE, not dubai, it seems that the money is just used there. i’ve found abu dhabi to be much more naturally beautiful than dubai, way [...]