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Healthy Herbed Zucchini Fritters For Hanukkah: RECIPE

It's that frying time of the year again. Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights which lasts for eight days. The holiday commemorates the victory of...

Israel’s Iconic Sabra Cactus Endangered by Invading Aphids

Israel, being on the "land bridge" that links it with Africa and Asia Minor, has always been well known for a number of biblical...

Surprising Reason Big Butts Are Healthy

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Polio in Syria, Israel and Egypt Puts Middle East on Edge

Polio,or Poliomyelitis has not been a serious medical issue ever since the first wide scale vaccines were developed by Dr. Jonas Salk in the...

Obamacare: Amman, Jordan Style

Green Prophets burn lots of calories trying to make the planet a better place, but you can’t do much do-gooding if you’re dead. I’ll...

ShelterBox: You Can Help Philippine Survivors NOW

The number of people left homeless by the devastating Philippines typhoon Haiyan has topped 800,000 according to the latest United Nations estimate.  Haiyan was...

Ruslan Khasanov’s Microbeads “Psychedelic” Soap Are Polluting Our Seas

A photographic series entitled Pacific Light captures a spellbinding dance that begins when ink, paint and soap collide. Watch stunning color combinations puddle and...

Green and Black Olive Spreads – The Ultimate Recipes

With the Middle Eastern olive season in full swing, it's natural to think of cooking with those fleshy, savory olive morsels. If you've been...

Breasts Age Faster Than Faces! 5 Tit Tips To Help Stem Sag

In the race towards old age, our "girls" cross the finish line first!  Maybe not a prize you want to win, but breast tissue...

See Severe Animal Abuse at Israel’s Largest Kosher Poultry Slaughterhouse (VIDEO)

More massive-scale animal abuse found in Israel. This time the kosher status of the company is at stake: Following news that cattle and sheep...

Dubai is Growing Food in Salt Marshes

Scientists in Dubai are growing a new kind of food crop in salt marshes along the Persian Gulf coast. A variety of salt-resistant succulent, Salicornia...

Hookah Pipe Dangers Exposed Yet Again

Smoking the hookah, nargilah or shisha pipe is a truly fun and social way to connect in the Middle East. It's an oriental fantasy...

Middle East and Swiss Researchers: Bugs Not Gay

We have to laugh at this research, given the latest news that there is a gay test being developed by Kuwait to weed out...

60 Must-Have Pantry Items For A Middle-Eastern Kitchen

"Middle Eastern food" is a catch-phrase that embraces the cuisines of so many countries, and ethnic streams inside those countries, that a list of 60 essential ingredients can't cover everything. But if you love the flavors of the Middle East...be it cumin-scented, crunchy falafel or the fragrance of rose-water in pastries like ma'amoul, it's worth organizing space in your kitchen for the ingredients listed below.

Desert Truffles An Underground Surprise from the Middle East!

Truffles -the delicious tubers- have been a topic in food literature throughout the ages, from neo-Sumerian inscriptions in the 20th century BCE, to the...

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Russia’s Arctic superdeep oil drill revives debunked ‘infinite oil’ theory

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Artificial intelligence is opening a new chapter in Dead Sea Scrolls research. By combining machine learning with chemical analysis, scientists hope to uncover where the ancient manuscripts were produced, identify connections between scribes, and reveal hidden patterns across more than 25,000 fragments that have remained unsolved for decades.
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