{"id":4047,"date":"2022-11-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:53","slug":"students-enjoy-bbq-night-before-finals-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2022\/11\/30\/students-enjoy-bbq-night-before-finals-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Enjoy BBQ Night Before Finals Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Anoud Hamzeh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SHARJAH, UAE: The Palestinian Cultural Club gathered students for a barbecue night in Creek Park on Nov. 26&nbsp;to de-stress before finals week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis event was made for students to take a break from their academic pressures before their upcoming finals,\u201d said Renad Khleif, the president of the PCC.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students started the event by watching a World Cup match and continued to prepare food and play games. They also danced the traditional Dabke to celebrate their culture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students got to know each other and made new friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khleif said, \u201cmy expectations for this event were reached and more, we didn&#8217;t expect that many people to show up. It was really nice seeing everyone blend in, enjoy the weather and socialize.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 90 to 100 students attended the event.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday was a really nice day. I would definitely repeat this experience with the Palestinian Cultural Club,\u201d said Hana Sabri, a student at the American University of Sharjah.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anoud Hamzeh SHARJAH, UAE: The Palestinian Cultural Club gathered students for a barbecue night in Creek Park on Nov. 26&nbsp;to de-stress before finals week.&nbsp; \u201cThis event was made for students to take a break from their academic pressures before their upcoming finals,\u201d said Renad Khleif, the president of the PCC.&nbsp; Students started the event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,32,35,17,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-4047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-campus","10":"tag-clubs","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-leisure"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}