Maqam 2 hostel

This place is more like a prison rather than a second home. Many rules are applied on Master and PhD students that only contradicts with the nature of research work. Unfortunately no one will listen to you or understand your needs as researcher or even as a human being.

As a Ph.D student, I don’t recommend this hostel at all. The hostel administration applies many rules that are not suitable for the nature of our research nor for our ages. We are being treated like children not researchers. Many many things are not allowed, which makes our stay here unpleasant.

Now that I graduated. I don't recommend this place to my worst enemy. However, This hostel is better than the other hostels the university provides, since it has a stadium so when the Madam's make your life hell the stadium is the place to go for to smell fresh air.

Degrading to live in a an adult human being

Super ❤️

Good quite place

جامعة الإمارات العربية المتحدة بالعين من افضل الجامعات المعترف بشهاداتها عالميا..
والحي الجامعي من احسن الأحياء الجامعية في الدولة

u003cENG followsu003e UAEU交換留学を検討中の方へ、日本からの交換留学生(2022-2023)として以下複数の点をご留意されることをお薦めします。
①女子学生の場合、UAEUの寮に住むと、年齢や婚姻、信条、国籍に関わらず、学校以外への外出は週3回までに限られます。
②外出時は、メールおよび国際通話による父親の許可が毎回必要です。
③フルタイム留学生(学部4年間または修士・博士の2年以上)でない場合、食費は寮費5600AED/学期に含まれず、都度現金で払う必要があります。カードは受け付けられず、また食費は朝昼夜全て食べる場合、2000AED/月で、これは寮の部屋代、学校⇔寮間の交通費、清掃代金、他管理費の総計の2倍ほどです。
④当たり前ですが、日本のように徒歩数分歩くとコンビニがある環境ではありません。学校、寮内には開店時間が曜日によって異なる小さなスーパーもあります。コンビニと同じか狭いくらいの規模です。野菜、フルーツ、肉魚はありません。ミルク、ヨーグルト、alproの植物性ミルク、お菓子、水、アイスクリーム、クロワッサン、スキンケア類などの日用品、筆記用具、調味料、カップ麺はあります。生理用品もここで入手可能です。
⑤「talabat」というデリバリーアプリがとても普及していて、他にもフランスのスーパー「carrfour」など日用品や食品をデリバリーで購入できる仕組みも十分に整っています(食品は即日または翌日に届きます)が、デリバリーアプリおよびショッピングアプリにはアレルゲンの表示・成分表示はほぼありません。
⑥デリバリーはカロリー・脂質の多いファストフードが多く、その割合は個人的には9割以上かと感じています。ファラフェルも脂っぽいです。
⑦女子学生の場合、毎晩20-21時ごろ、寮にきちんといるかどうか出欠を取られます。出欠確認に行かない場合、電話で寮にいるのか聞かれます。尚、門限は23時です。
⑧女子学生の場合、夜の12時以降デリバリーや配達を受け取ることは許されていません。
⑧男子学生の場合、何時に、どこへ、誰と行くにも一切の許可は不要です。また、デリバリーも時間に関わらず受け取ることが可能です。毎日の出欠確認もありません。

To who is considering to study abroad in the UAEU as an exchange student for a semester or two semesters, not a full time student. I would like you to kindly be noted several things below. I’ve been in UAEU as an undergraduate exchange student from Japan in 2022 Fall to 2023 Spring.
1. If you are a female student and live in UAEU hostels, you are not allowed to go outside the school or your hostel more than three times a week regardless of your gender, marriage, age, nationalities.
2. If you want to go outside for shopping or hanging out with friends and you are female, you are supposed to get a permission from your father both via email with his passport photos and international call (WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, Cacao talk, zoom, any call works).
3. If you are female, you are not allowed to get delivery services after 12am.
4. You can go outside during 7am to 11pm if you are female.
5. You are supposed to be taken attendance around 8pm - 9pm in either the reception/admin or in the supervisor room of each buildings if you are female.
6. If you are a visiting student(an exchange student), not a full time student who belongs to the UAEU such as international students, those in MA or PhD, your meals in cafeterias are NOT INCLUDED in your housing fee even though you would pay the same amount as other students. Specifically, students in the UAEU’s hostels pay 5600 AED per semester for a room, transportations between the campus and a hostel of the university, cleaning room services and meals for three times a day. However, it is not the case for exchanges or visiting researchers. It means, they have to pay extra for meals when they want to eat. If you eat three times a day, it costs 2000 AED monthly. Credit cards are not accepted, cash only.
7. None the less to say, there is no 24H convenience stores around the campus or hostels that sell fresh salads or groceries. It is impossible to go for walks for a minutes and get food here considering the geography and temperature. There are small stores in hostels and the campus with certain opening hours, they don’t sell fruits, vegetables, meats, fish. They sell milk, plant milk by alpro, yogurt, snacks, ice creams, croissants, bottles of water, personal care products, seasonings such as spices and so forth. Sanitary pads are available here.
8. You can order ready-to-go meals and get groceries stuff because a delivery service named “Talabat” and “Carrefour” which is a French supermarket’s app are very common here. Usually you can get groceries and stuff on the order day or next day. Please not that you rarely find information such as allergen, gluten, ingredients of products on those apps.
9. Most of ready-to-eat meals on delivery app are fast food with high calories, carbon hydrates, and fat. Having visited from Japan, I personally feel even falafel is too oily for me as a vegetarian.
10. Lastly, If you are a male student, you can go outside wherever and whenever you want without any registration nor permissions from your parents. Also, you can get delivery services that you order 24h/7. You don’t do not have any attendance in your hostel everyday.