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Discuss “Qatari students visit Pittsburgh campus”

They sing Usher at karaoke, watch The Notebook on university movie nights, and find friends on Facebook.

Their weekend entertainment often includes belly dancing, their conversations are peppered with Arabic phrases, and they love food just as much as their Pittsburgh peers.

"God bless America," said Maha Obaidan, digging into a brownie sundae at the Walnut Grill in Shadyside.

Obaidan, a first-year computer science major at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, was one of five students from the Middle Eastern campus who came to Pittsburgh last week as part of a cross-campus exchange initiative between the Pittsburgh and Qatar campuses. The five are among the first class of students at CMU-Q, Carnegie Mellon's satellite campus that opened...

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