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Saudi Citizens Release Documentary Criticising Lack of Flood Protection

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Jordan Teams With Spanish Firm To Cool Homes With The Sun

The Jordanian Renewable Energy Society is adding solar-cooling to their Eco-House project. While Jordanians argue over whether enviro Queen Rania is entitled to throw lavish...

Dubai Utility Doubles Business Electricity Rates in Three Years

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The Green Sheikh Rubber Stamps Cradle To Cradle Event

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Egyptian Strikes Clear The Air – Temporarily

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The UAE takes another green step with a sustainability camp set for February 26. The United Arab Emirates has been up to all manner...

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Birds in Iran Migrate Between Polluted to Less-polluted Cities

Once part of the urban horizon, crows are leaving Iranian cities. Since the 1980s scholars have studied the influences of urbanization on the environment,...

Istanbul Shoppers Rendevouz On Giant Green Roof

This urban center may look normal, if having lunch on a roof of a mall is normal. Sadly replacing the traditional Arab Souqs or markets...

Motorbikes Produce Almost Half of Tehran’s Sound Pollution

Yes, noise is a form of pollution from motorized vehicles that's bad for your health. Sound pollution in Iranian cities is hitting an all-time...

Egypt’s Conflagration is an Advance Warning for an Unsustainable World

Climate change, peak oil and too many mouths to feed topples the first of the world's now fragile economies. Egypt is just the first nation...

Qatar Ministry To Get A Desert-Loving Cactus Building

Qatar has chosen a building that is both shaped and acts like a cactus as their latest superstar project. With an area of less than...

Bike Sharing Down to a Science

New algorithms make bike sharing more efficient. The environmentally-friendly concept of  bike-sharing is taking over European cities like Paris, and Tel Aviv is about...

Ehrlich Architecture Trumps Hadid And Foster With UAE Parliament Win

Considered a huge upset in the architecture world, Ehrlich firm wins bid to build the new UAE Parliament Building. Foster & Partners have a solid...

Compost Toilets and 4 Good Reasons for the Middle East

Will it smell? Can I save money? And will it create fertilizer? Flushing our waste down the toilet is not the ideal way of utilising...

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The Christ’s thorn (sidr tree) is also a well-known folk medicine

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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