Health

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America, next to some European countries, has the most stringent environmental policies on health and safety. In 2008 America's Food and Health Administrations (the...

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Dubai’s Dancing Towards Fitness, Bollywood Style

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5 Great Summer Treats from the Middle East

Rich spices and heavy wintertime comfort food: this is what often springs to mind when people think of recipes from the Middle East and...

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Making your raw, home-grown eggs safe for mayonnaise is easy. If you raise your own chickens and have plenty of healthy eggs, like chickens our editor...

Homemade Strawberry Jam Recipe

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Beating Breast Cancer with Tumeric, a Favorite Middle East Spice

Turmeric originates from Asia and is common to Indian cuisine. It is also a popular ingredient for middle eastern recipes. Worried about the side effects...

African Land Grab Continues – Middle East Is Major Buyer

According to the Worldwatch Institute's latest report on land grab, the oil-rich Gulf nations are big buyers of foreign land Since 2000, an estimated 70.2...

Israeli Tomato-Based Dye Replaces Crushed Bugs in Starbuck’s Pink Drinks

Tomat-O-Red colors foods that appetizing pink color and even offers health benefits. Like eating Shakshouka every day? Starbucks made waves with their eco-move away from...

Bahrain Balances Traditional and Modern Medicine

Bahrain’s health authority has established four directives to regulate the sale and prescription of traditional, alternative medicines. This step was taken in response to...

Get Your Blood Tested for Heavy Metals

If you live in the west or the east, in an economically advanced country or a repressed one, getting a blood test is always...

Protect your heart With bananas

What's sweet, good for you, and comes in completely biodegradable packaging? Bananas, of course. Don't let June's seasonal fruit distract you from picking up a...

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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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