New York University Abu Dhabi

As the Democrats have taken control of US Congress and as voters reject elections, Trump's Republicans.

We're going to be getting analysis on that from Adam J. Ramey, Assistant Professor of Political Science at NYU Abu Dhabi about what the results mean for Trump and crucially what it means for us in the UAE and the wider Gulf.

It's also...

Planting week here in the UAE.

He's lead for Frontier Technologies and AI at the World Health Organization, joining us live in the studio.

And could weight loss drugs help more people work? Well, new research from NYU Abu Dhabi says they might.

But would you take them? Now, there's some good news coming out of the UAE.

It was a journey starting from opening a very small office in Abu Dhabi.

And that's a drug that mimics a natural hormone involved in regulating blood sugar and more importantly, appetite.

And people taking Exempit for diabetes were 4.1% points more likely to to be in work and people already in work you know who paid for wegovi managed their weight worked an extra 29.7 hours every three months and the research says that the income tax extra could help offset the cost of subsidizing diabetes treatment really really good point to To go through some more of the data and the analysis, I'm joined on the line by Professor Vida Narasimhan.

He's Assistant Professor of Economics at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Thanks so much for joining me on The Agenda, Professor.

And over time, you don't make those same mistakes.

It's to say being a part of this enterprise and bringing Stern to Abu Dhabi and to NYU Abu Dhabi has been one of the coolest things I've ever done in my career.

It's also been one of the hardest things I've ever done in my career.

And that includes being an assistant professor and going through the whole tenure process.

My kids will be proud of what their dad did.

My kids will tell their kids, my grandkids, and maybe they'll tell their kids about some of the things that they're... their father, grandfather, great-grandfather helped with.

I mean, to help build an institution, the Stern School of Business here at NYU Abu Dhabi, if my kids are telling their kids and grandkids that their dad helped build this and was a part of building this institution, I'd be all right with that.

Final question.

We feel like at home.

Hey, welcome to the Art Center at NYU Abu Dhabi podcast.

My name is Mikey Mhenna.

Today on this series, we have the special band Fenferai, who is performing in Abu Dhabi on September 5th of 2026.

And Dora is so cool.

She grew up in Hungary, studied neuroscience at NYU Abu Dhabi, and later studied human-computer interaction in Sweden.

Woo! She's also a Forbes 30 under 30, Europe honoree, and a TEDx speaker.

Dora, welcome to the AI for Kids podcast.

She was born in Toronto.

She had passages through NYU Abu Dhabi, University of Oxford, and more recently completed her JD at Stanford University.

She's now building Pan Africa's AI technology.

And I'm so excited to speak with her and talk about her education, her career, and also the innovations that she's bringing about to the world.

Before we get to that, here's your Tonic Quickshot.

Scientists at NYU Abu Dhabi have developed a tiny medical device that could offer a new way to treat chronic pain and movement disorders.

Created in partnership with the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, the device is small enough to be delivered through a standard needle and does not require batteries, wires, or surgical implantation.

About the size of a small seed, the device is placed near a specific nerve where it delivers controlled electrical signals to change nerve activity.

Linda Gradstein has long covered Israel, first for NPR and most recently for The Voice of America of Blessed Memory.

Linda is also a lecturer in journalism at NYU Tel Aviv and the Hebrew University and not too long ago at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Linda has won an Overseas Press Club Award and an Alfred I. DuPont Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism.

Linda, how are you doing?

He was saying how culture is messy and you have to experiment and you have to give breathing space, but it also requires participation, and that's where Bill Bragin came in, and Bill is a friend.

He leads the arts center at New York University Abu Dhabi, and he brings acts from all over the world.

And so again, that role of not only the entertainment side and the, you know, beauty of cultural events, but also educating people about one another.

But he was making that point about participation.