By Malika Kaloo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates – The American University of Sharjah\u2019s ecological representatives and the members of cultural clubs put up posters around campus on Thursday to celebrate the United Arab Emirates\u2019 50th<\/sup> National Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The event was part of the collaboration between AUS Sustainability and the Office of Student Affairs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The posters display the UAE\u2019s diversity and cultural tolerance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUsually, the first thing that comes to our mind when we think about sustainability is environment and earth, but sustainability is more than that. It is about celebrating cultures, diversity and tolerance,\u201d said Vini Rupchandani, AUS Sustainability\u2019s ecological representative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSince it is the 50th<\/sup> National Day, we collaborated with the cultural clubs to celebrate the values of tolerance and diversity in the UAE,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ecological representatives and the members of seven cultural clubs decorated seven bulletin boards around the campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was a great opportunity for all the cultural clubs to express their cultural values and celebrate the diversity of the UAE,\u201d said Jawwad Sheikh, the activities coordinator of Pakistani Cultural Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sheikh said that it took the Pakistani Cultural Club almost a week to prepare the posters for the event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The UAE will celebrate its 50th<\/sup> National Day on Dec. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Malika Kaloo SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates – The American University of Sharjah\u2019s ecological representatives and the members of cultural clubs put up posters around campus on Thursday to celebrate the United Arab Emirates\u2019 50th National Day. The event was part of the collaboration between AUS Sustainability and the Office of Student Affairs. The posters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,34,32,30,16,35,17,39,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-2431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-caad","10":"tag-campus","11":"tag-cas","12":"tag-cen","13":"tag-clubs","14":"tag-community","15":"tag-sba","16":"tag-sharjah-uae"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}