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Jordan Women’s Guild in Safi has Sustainable Art in the Bag

Laurie Balbo - Karin Kloosterman -
A tiny collective of rural women at the southern tip of the Dead Sea in Safi is creating art that’s omni-sustainable. Since 1999, with catalytic...
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America’s First Hijab Design Competition Turns Tradition on its Head

Tafline Laylin -
It's true that a preponderance of Muslim women are shrouded in unflattering chadors and hijabs that hardly permit a crack of light, but American...
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Stick the Solar-Powered Window Socket on Glass and Watch it Charge

Tafline Laylin -
Here's a design that rivals the light bulb in its ingenuity: the Window Socket.  The disc-like socket designed by the Korean duo Kyuho Song...
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Adital Ela’s Terra stools and lamps are foot-stomped furniture that composts

Tafline Laylin -
Inspired by an Indian tradition of serving chai tea in clay cups, Israel's Adital Ela has designed Terra - an entire line of interiors...
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Studio Sfog in Tel Aviv Makes Recycling an Art Form

Leigh Cuen -
We love the creative eco design coming out of Tel Aviv. Israel faces nationwide challenges of mismanaged waste and insufficient recycling infrastructure, but from...
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Beirut-Based Bokja Design’s Migration Sofa Rocked Milan Design Week

Tafline Laylin -
If we only listened to mainstream media, we would know Beirut as a city full of bullet holes, terrorists and Syrian refugees - all...
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Israeli Poet Nitzan Mintz Makes Sustainable Art Stick To The Streets

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Israeli street artist Nitzan Mintz writes her poems on the streets of Tel Aviv, using disregarded materials she collects from dumpsters and public spaces....
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Bling for Books: Angelina Jolie Opens School in Afghanistan

Faisal O'Keefe -
Angelina Jolie funds girls' schools in Afghanistan with the proceeds of her luxury jewelry line. Hollywood actress and goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High...
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Ali Lamu Upcycles Weathered Dhow Sails into Inspiring Art

Tafline Laylin -
"This is not a romance story," Daniella told me during a recent interview. I met the petite woman at her home on Lamu Island...
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David Thomas Smith “Google Maps” Your City As a Persian Rug

Faisal O'Keefe -
Irish artist David Thomas Smith weaves thousands of Google Maps screen grabs into intricate designs mimicking Persian rugs.  Look closer, and these symmetrical compositions reveal...
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Hussein Chalayan’s Transformer Runway Clothes

Faisal O'Keefe -
Want to go from one high fashion look to a completely different one without getting undressed? Hussein Chalayan is a high-end transformer clothing designer. 
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Yours & Mine Eco-Fashion Arrives in Amman

Faisal O'Keefe -
A new Amman clothing retailer is hitting all the green lights on the fashion runway: Yours & Mine makes sustainability chic, selling locally sourced,...
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Garbage Art Ideas from Mary Ellen Croteau

Faisal O'Keefe -
Plastic bottle cap picture by Mary Ellen Croteau The caps are synthetic artifacts, plastic products that usually aren't (and more often, can't be) recycled.  Self-described political...
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She’s Making Graffiti at the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (PHOTOS)

Laurie Balbo - Karin Kloosterman -
Malina Suliman's Fighting the Taliban with Paint and Graffiti Sometimes graffiti can be seen from space. In Tunisia it graces the country's tallest minaret. In...
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Knitting a Tree for Middle East Peace

Laurie Balbo - Karin Kloosterman -
Armed with knitting needles, Israelis and Palestinians are knitting for peace! The TikkunTree Project is a community knittivist art project dedicated to advocacy of peace...
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