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Nour Khamis

13 November 2025

At the Wellbeing Week, you can work on yourself without your phone

Quietly playing a board game without distractions from your phone, getting a free treatment from a professional massage therapist or coming up with an action plan to tackle your sugar addiction. All of that is possible during the Wellbeing Week.…
26 September 2025

VU acknowledges genocide in Gaza

VU Amsterdam does not want to speak out explicitly, but in an open letter, the university indirectly acknowledges that Israel is committing genocide. VU’s management writes that it sees no reason to question the UN’s conclusions.
22 August 2025

How to be kinda Dutch, maybe

As the Netherlands clamps down on internationalisation, internationals face more pressure to ‘integrate’ into Dutch society. Use this guide to become more of a local and less of a tourist in just one day.
1 July 2025

Iranian researchers feel alone

How do Iranian students and staff feel about the recent outbreak of war in their country, and how are their families and friends doing? Three Iranian researchers from VU are disappointed that so far, nobody has asked them these questions.
23 June 2025

Students demand unpaid wages from job agency ViaOns

Sixteen VU and UvA students say they’ve not been paid for their work by the job agency that linked them to hospitality jobs. ‘You have to beg and chase them every day while they toy with you.’
16 June 2025

‘No sustainable development without peace’

Last week’s sustainability summit featured topics that most people might not expect from a sustainability event, including the war in Ukraine and the Middle East as well as student encampments on campus.
31 March 2025

‘We learn how to use AI from Instagram and TikTok’

While VU Amsterdam struggles to keep up with the rapidly evolving AI landscape, students are getting important information about the technology from social media rather than the classroom.
21 March 2025

Students stand with VU staff strike against education cuts

On April 7th, VU employees will join the nationwide strike against the €1.2 billion education budget cuts. These cuts are a direct attack on the quality of our education and the freedom of students to choose their studies. SRVU Student…
14 February 2025

Confessions of a campus supermarket thief

Have you ever noticed someone sneaking out of the campus supermarket without paying for their goods? We tracked down self-confessed shoplifters and asked them why and how they get their ‘free’ lunch.
19 December 2024

‘There wasn’t always tension between science and religion’

Once every two weeks, Earth Sciences research student Dragos Mitrica organizes a discussion about astronomy-related topics.
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