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Cluster Of Turkish Buildings Cool Off With Roof Pools

Global Architecture Development circumvents heat and building codes with this house in Southwest Turkey. There's all kinds of things you can do with roofs: in...

UAE To Cut Electricity Output, Carbon Emissions

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Is Jerusalem Stone Under Threat?

We've heard about peak oil. Ilana asks about "peak Jerusalem stone" - and if it will ever be under threat. My earliest memory of...

Earthmisting Irrigation May be Plausible Solution to Middle East Agriculture

If it works as claimed, the Earthmister will go a long way toward greening the deserts. In the water scarce Middle East, a new type...

“Mayslits Kassif Architecture” Takes Coveted European Landscape Architecture Award for Tel Aviv Port

For the first time in history, Israeli architects who designed Tel Aviv's Port took best design at the European Biennial of Landscape Architecture Awards. The...

Rawabi: Palestine’s Greenest City, or Greenest Wash?

Israel's Environmental Protection Ministry threatens to enforce their will in Palestinian territory, where the plans for Rawabi are not as green as Palestinian/Qatari developers...

Students Redefine Urban Spaces In Three Days and Three Nights

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Going Green Is A Tactical Offensive In War

The US Army in Afghanistan recognizes that going green solves fuel supply problems for troops. Logistical supply line problems in military forces have been the...

Gerard Evenden Lifts Masdar’s Veil Of Mystery – Half Way

An interview that is supposed to shed light on Masdar's real progress does little more than reorganize the project's rhetoric Following a recent New York...

Israel Shares Strategies For Taking Back The Desert Oasis November 8-11, 2010

Over 500 people from 50 countries will join the Third Annual International Conference on "Drylands, Deserts and Desertification: The Route to Restoration," on November...

Déjà vu: Kuwait Water Worries Reminiscent Of Other Gulf Region Countries

Kuwaiti desalination plants similar to this one provide all the country's fresh water at great environmental expense A Gulf Times article that points out the...

“72 Hour Urban Action” Takes Over Bat Yam, Israel

Teams have 72 hours to re-design an urban area in a pretty crumby satellite city in Israel. It's guerilla urban architecture. We've all had the...

BP Deep Drilling In Libya Threatens Archeological Sites

Known for bulldozing archeology ruins into the sea, is it hello BP and bye bye Appolonia? Libya's ancient archeological sites under threat from offshore...

Global Warming Message Goes Awry at UAE Water Park

Energy-intensive water park in the desert, offers  a "home" to displaced penguins. Every now and then, the Middle East comes up with a scheme that...

Who’s Going Nuclear in the Middle East?

A handy chart to plot which Middle East countries are going nuclear. Ever since oil was discovered in the Middle East around 1950 it...

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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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Farm To Table Israel is transforming the traditional dining experience into a hands-on journey.

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In Islamic tradition, there is a point where creation ends — a boundary that marks the limit of what any created being can reach. That boundary is called Sidrat al-Muntahā, often translated as “the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary.”

The Air Tea Kettle creates a new way to meet plants and herbalism

Air Tea is a new technology. Instead of drinking tea, you inhale herbal vapor through warm air extraction. There is no water and no combustion. The warm air releases essential oils that are often lost in hot water and digestion.

Why Health Systems Are Reaching a Turning Point

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