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Marrakech biker chicks wear bootleg Chanel and Louis Vuitton Abayas

If you thought that women from the Middle East and North Africa all wear drab black blankets over the head and stay home to...

Walking architecture envisions a built environment based on human motion

Daydreams can catalyze real change. Look to the far-reaching influence of designers who choose to work in the hypothetical, where unrestricted creativity is unfettered...

El Gouna: Egypt builds MENA’s first carbon-neutral city

El Gouna, a resort city on Egypt's Red Sea Riviera, is set to become the first carbon-neutral city in that nation, in Africa, and...

Burj residents sweat over developer threats to cut A/C and elevator services

Residents of the world's tallest building in Dubai are being punished over unpaid maintenance fees - some of them unjustly. In order to pressure...

Pushing on for the sodium ion battery, in Nature

One of the most pressing problems of modern society is how to convert and store energy. Lithium ion batteries have been the main energy...

First pics of Foster + Partners futuristic incubator building at Masdar City

Masdar City is starting to shape up with a roster of new buildings. Siemens recently completed their LEED Platinum headquarters, the new IRENA headquarters...

Lebanon’s largest landfill gets blocked by protestors

Lebanon has had its share of pollution and garbage issues laundered out on Green Prophet. There have been stories of garbage trucks dumping their...

Oldest Hebrew inscription from Jerusalem deciphered: “the wine was cheap”

Archeologists have deciphered what they believe to be the oldest Hebrew texts originating from the Holy City of Jerusalem: "the wine was cheap", is...

Siemens opens Middle East’s greenest office building at Masdar City (PHOTOS)

When the Middle East eco-city developers from Masdar approached David Ardill, Partner and Design Director at Sheppard Robson, to design Siemens' new corporate headquarters at...

Can there be more Masdar eco-cities in the Middle East?

Can there be more Masdars? Can this experimental eco-city be replicated in other Middle Eastern or North African countries that don't have Abu Dhabi's...

This wavy Expo pavilion will eat greenhouse gas in 2015

Remember how exciting it was when we first saw pictures of Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates. Masdar is the futuristic terra-cotta curvy buildings...

The Shard is getting a neighbor and Qatar is footing the bill

There was great hullabaloo when The Shard was completed just one year ago. Not only was it financed by Qatar, but the 306 meter...

Time to tour … Erbil? Hey, it’s the Arab Tourism Capital of 2014

With outstanding infrastructural improvement due in large part to projects launched by the cutting-edge real estate development company, Empire World, Erbil in Iraq is...

Dubai exploded 400,000 fireworks in record-shattering NYE display [video]

Dubai rang in 2014 with a record-shattering fireworks display. In an effort to break the Guinness World Record for the world's largest fireworks extravaganza...

The new road to Dubai will be recycled and green

The current road linking Abu Dhabi and Dubai, E111 is said to be one of the most dangerous, which killed roughly 9 out of...

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Astro uses AI to help procure land for renewable energy

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Christ’s thorn jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) also known as the sidr tree is a real, identifiable tree native to the Middle East, and it appears—directly or indirectly—in Islam, Judaism, and later Christian tradition. The connections between the three faiths are not theological agreements but overlapping uses, names, and symbolic associations rooted in the same landscape.

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Knowing about the concept of the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary helps explain a core idea in Islam.

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