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George Orwell Never Imagined These Deluxe Farms for Bees and Animals

Animals have a hard life in the Middle East. Working beasts endure grueling outdoor elements and pet culture is unfamiliar.  In a region where...

Bird’s Nest: Solar-Powered Studio Perches on School Roofs

Onat Öktem, Ziya Imren and Zeynep Öktem are among the most exciting eco-minded architects working in Turkey, and Bird's Nest is also among their most unique...

HUSH: A Seating Pod that Creates Privacy Anywhere

HUSH is a brilliant seating pod designed by Freyja Sewell that creates a small tucked away spot anywhere - even in the most crowded...

Lush Green Terraces Top the Palestine Museum by Heneghan Peng

Dublin's Heneghan Peng has designed a new museum for Palestine that is topped with a series of unfolding green terraces planted with vegetation that...

Dubai: World’s Largest Airport Greens Up its Act

Dubai International, soon to be the world's largest airport, is focusing on sustainability with its newly proposed concourse D. The wing, which is the...

Cristal: a Salt-Covered Leisure Center for the Dying Dead Sea

The Dead Sea garnered international attention when photographer Spencer Tunick assembled a gang of naked nature enthusiasts for a controversial photo shoot, but the momentum...

Aerodynamic ARPT Headquarters Diverts Algiers’ Hot Desert Winds Naturally

The same Italian design firm that designed a fleet of eco-schools for Gaza has won an international competition to design the headquarters of Algeria's...

First Green-Roofed Urban Oasis Planned for Abu Dhabi

Albeit better than neighboring Dubai's skyline of what renowned architect Frank Gehry calls "cheap" and "anonymous" architecture, Abu Dhabi has grown into a...

Grow Your Own Living Clothes with BioCouture During Beirut Design Week

If you are a designer eager to find more sustainable material choices for your creative inventions, you might want to hit the BioCouture workshop...

Ron Arad Immortalizes Six Fiat 500s by Crushing Them for Israeli Art Exhibit

Israeli artist and designer Ron Arad has expressed his love of Fiat 500s in a curious way as part of an art exhibition at...

4 Ways to Green Your Gold

Middle Easterners blessed with oil wealth love to flaunt their gold. Don't be surprised to find gold bars sold at dispensing machine in Dubai...

New Hairy Stocking Fashion Thwarts Mingling Between the Sexes

Women weary of ogling men can now deflect attention with a pair of hairy stockings. The fuzzy fashion accessory is a runaway hit after...

THIS Miswak Toothbrush Founder to Launch Middle East AIGA Design Chapter at Beirut Design Week

The founder of THIS - a small design company that is distributing a contemporary version of the Miswack, an organic, biodegradable, all-natural toothbrush that...

Qatar’s Eco-Fashion Design Winners from World Environment Day

World Environment Day festivities came to a close on Friday, June 7 in Qatar as participants in the celebration’s green competitions were crowned winners....

How Jean Bradbury Makes a Difference a World Away in Jordan

Jordanian craftswomen near the southern Dead Sea are creating unique market bags, placemats and quilts colored with naturally sourced dyes, then painted and embroidered....

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PEOPLE Festival returns to Berlin’s Funkhaus this October, bringing 180 musicians together for a week of collaboration, improvisation and more than 200 one-off performances.

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Sophie Nadel turns data into something tactile, using embroidery and textiles to explore how we store, hide and understand information.

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Teletherapy can make mental health care easier to access by reducing travel, scheduling and location barriers. Here are six ways virtual therapy can help people connect with professional support more easily.

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Food system’s biggest waste may be the farmers we don’t see: Hugh Locke’s new book

Whole Earth Farming: Smallholders and the Great Regenerative Transformation by Hugh Locke is published by George Ronald in September 2026.

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PEOPLE Festival returns to Berlin’s Funkhaus this October, bringing 180 musicians together for a week of collaboration, improvisation and more than 200 one-off performances.

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Sophie Nadel turns data into something tactile, using embroidery and textiles to explore how we store, hide and understand information.

6 Ways Teletherapy Can Reduce Barriers to Accessing Mental Health Care

Teletherapy can make mental health care easier to access by reducing travel, scheduling and location barriers. Here are six ways virtual therapy can help people connect with professional support more easily.

Can You Work Closer to Home? What to Check Before Choosing a Shared Workspace

A coworking space within walking distance can cut commuting time and give you a reliable place to work, but distance alone does not make it useful. Test the internet, noise, privacy, desk setup, environmental claims and real cost before committing to a membership.

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Yazan Al Homsi looks at two very different bets — Aduro Clean Technologies and Rocket Doctor — to show what investors should watch as small-cap companies attempt to move from promising technology to commercial scale.

Breast Mesh Reconstruction Problems: Signs Patients May Notice

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