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AIA Names Saudi's KAUST In 2010 Top Green Projects

The king willed it - so it was built...Michael Arndt questions the 'greenliness' of KAUST, granted the US Green Building Council’s highest LEED certification...

Holyland and Israel’s Commons, The Government’s Song

A real estate scandal in Jerusalem reveals Israel's government's dangerous stance on the privatization of land development, and use of open spaces, Yosef argues. As...

Tel Aviv Requests Public's Help in Boardwalk Redesign

A rendering of Tel Aviv's new central promenade: stairs leading down to the beach, a paved lower level, shade-providing structures and new sidewalk...

San Francisco's Sherith Israel To Become Seismic-Safe

Near The Dead Sea fault, can Israel's home synagogues withstand the next big earthquake? The San Francisco Chronicle announced that the Sherith Israel synagogue,...

Holyland's Unnatural “Monster on the Mountain” Built with Bribes

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denies the charges, but he is suspected of accepting $1million to push through the highly contested Holyland Project which...

The Eco-House in Aqaba, Jordan

Tareq Emtairah built this eco-house to prove that energy efficient buildings aren't always prohibitively expensive. Jordan’s Prince Hassan does not shoulder his environmental concerns alone,...

Qatar's Green Building Council Rallies Community Leaders

Qatar's Green Building Council (QGBC) founder and chairman Eng. Issa M. Al Mohannadi will speak at the "Planet and Profit in Partnership" on April...

Architect Cameron Sinclair Gives a Damn

With a mantra to "design like you give a damn," Sinclair has transformed thousands of lives. Whether to save governments billions of dollars in mutual...

The Story Behind Jerusalem's Royal Rock

The demand for Jerusalem stone comes with a social and environmental cost We have applauded Jerusalem’s living building, and we have drooled over delicious...

Re-Assessing Masdar City

Is Masdar City a beacon for Middle Eastern development? It may take another 10 years to find out. We have been skeptical of Masdar City...

What's Sustainable about Masdar's Foster+Partners?

Foster+Partners, architect firm, claim projects like Masdar City are sustainable. Are they? Meet Foster + Partners: one thousand employees work in their twenty-two offices...

Dubai's Burj Khalifa Will Tower in Darkness During Earth Hour

Burj towers over Dubai. The environmentally-wasteful building will turn its lights off on Earth Hour. (Image via csmonitor.com) The Green Prophet has questioned the environmental...

Jean Nouvel’s National Museum of Qatar Design is Unveiled at NYC's Museum of Modern Art

"The New York Times reports the unveiling of the French architect's latest Middle Eastern project To some, the desert comprises an intimidating plain of dirty...

Is Urjuan a Wise Expenditure of Qatar's Oil and Gas Wealth?

The Urjuan City Development is a Symbol of Qatar's Rapid Economic Growth In February we wrote about the memorandum signed by Qatar and Iran, which...

The Best Way to Keep Buildings Green is Not to Build New Ones

Central Tel Aviv, Cira 1940's: A Sustainable Idea Then and Now All over the Middle East, many old and often historical buildings are being torn down in order...

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Earth building with Dead Sea salt bricks

Researchers develop a brick made largely from recycled Dead Sea salt—offering a potential alternative to carbon-intensive cement.

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.

The Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary, explained

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

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.

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