Coronavirus: how international students in Dubai are coping away from home – The National

Coronavirus: how international students in Dubai are coping away from home – The National

Coronavirus: how international students in Dubai are coping away from home. Some could not afford a last minute flight home, while others wanted to see out their final year with their peers, albeit virtually.. I did not think the lockdown measures were going to go on as long as this and I do question if I made the right choice, many of my close friends have left for home already. Ali Muzaffar, 23, is one of hundreds of those still living in student accommodations in Dubai.. "I had the option to either go home to India and stay with my brother or head to Libya where my parents live, that's where I grew up.. Last year, the Dubai Higher Education Landscape report put the university student population in the emirate at 29,989 - more than 60 per cent of which were international students.. For second year student Manny Moid, the decision to isolate in Dubai rather than return home during the pandemic was not an easy one.. Adjusting to the "quiet life" away from home has been challenging for 22-year-old Indian national Pallavi Verma.. But for the most part it has given her time to "reflect" on life after university..