Theme: Black and White: The Polarities of Our World

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ABA's Performing Arts Center
Al Khuwair Street
Muscat, Masqaţ, 115
Oman

Jessica Coutinho

Student

Jessica is currently a junior at ABA. Her talk "Oreos and Chindians" is inspired from her heritage from both China and India. Commonly seen as two polar opposite countries, she used the Oreo cookie as an analogy to discuss how polar opposites can form something spectacular, and how barriers between opposite countries should be broken and collaboration encouraged.

Miraal Kabir

Student

Miraal Kabir is currently a junior at ABA, and hails from Canada. Her talk, "The Secret to Twinship" was inspired by the life of her and her fraternal twin Omar.

Omar Dabbous

Student

Omar is currently a junior at ABA and comes from Egypt and the United States. Omar holds strong interest in the fields of art and places high value on community service and initiative through his work in student led organizations. His talk titled "Why we trust strangers" discusses the sociology behind trust in the modern world.

Sejal Sridhar

Student

Sejal is a junior at ABA and comes from India. Her talk, "The Power of Stories", was inspired by the similarity between people despite social and economic disparities.

Toshali Sengupta

Student

Toshali is a senior at ABA and hails from Calcutta, India. Her strong interest in history and literature motivated her talk "Calcutta vs. Kolkatta", a talk discussing the connotations and impacts of the names Calcutta, the colonial name, and Kolkatta, the original name.