Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly collection through which NPR’s worldwide workforce shares moments from their lives and work around the globe.
Hope you want cats! There are greater than 1,000 of them this campus. About 1,200 truly, though it is inconceivable for employees to rely all of them as a result of … cats.
About 30 years in the past, the American University of Beirut (AUB) began taking in cats deserted throughout years of struggle in Lebanon. During final yr’s struggle with Israel, it gained a number of hundred that have been dumped at its gate.
AUB has an enormous sprawling campus filled with towering bushes and inexperienced areas main all the way down to the Mediterranean Sea (sure, it’s as lovely because it sounds), and quite a lot of the cats are shy, so it does not get overwhelming.
There are all types of cats: purebreds in addition to scrappy avenue cats. The college spays, neuters and vaccinates them, and tries to undertake out those it may well.
Not everyone seems to be a fan of cats, however college students are required to not be imply to them. So the cats meander out and in of open doorways. Occasionally they sit in school rooms. And there are many college students who love them. This is a irritating place in irritating instances. Sometimes simply petting a cat helps.
See extra images from around the globe:
- Greetings from a peaceable woodland close to the River Thames west of London
- Greetings from Guhagar, India, the place newly hatched turtles get some assist into the ocean
- Greetings from the Negev desert, the place traces stay of a vanished historic civilization
- Greetings from the Dubai airport, the place an extended layover can be a vacation spot
- Greetings from Paris, the place you’ll be able to swim within the Seine for the primary time in a century
- Greetings from Gujarat, India, the place a banyan tree is a spot for relaxation, prayers and play
- Greetings from Khartoum, Sudan, the place these with the least supply their visitors probably the most
- Greetings from Moscow, Russia, the place Lenin’s tomb attracts a brand new surge of tourists
- Greetings from New Delhi, India, the place performing monkeys spark delight — and ambivalence
- Greetings from Damascus, Syria, the place a crowded bar welcomed post-Assad revelers
- Greetings from Alishan, Taiwan, whose pink cypress forests supply timeless magnificence
- Greetings from Odesa, Ukraine, the place a Black Sea seashore presents respite from struggle
- Greetings from Shenyang, China, the place employees type AI information in ‘Severance’-like methods
- Greetings from Palmyra, Syria, with its once-grand resort named for a warrior queen
- Greetings from Mexico City, the place these canines journey a bus to and from college
- Greetings from the Galápagos Islands, the place the blue-footed booby reveals its colours
- Greetings from Afrin, Syria, the place Kurds danced their hearts out to have a good time spring
- Greetings from Dharamshala, India, the place these Tibetan youngsters have been having one of the best time
