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5 Supermarket Vegetables You Can “Upcycle” and Grow At Home

Bring home basil, mint, garlic, tomatoes and potatoes from the supermarket and grow them into your own organic garden. If  you dream of growing a...

Don’t Go To Israel’s Vegetarian Village, Amirim, For the Food

Amirim, a unique vegetarian village in northern Israel, offers gorgeous views... and mediocre food. Once upon a time (according to the owner of the bed...

Pesticides In Pregnant Jerusalemites Higher Than NYC Counterparts

Pregnant women in Jerusalem might not be receiving adequate protection against harmful pesticides, while those with graduate degrees had the highest levels of all....

Green Your Thumb and Start Gardening For Food

Will we really have to face a world without humus? Green Prophet explores urban gardening to offset food shortages. Climate change has already made historical...

Formula Companies Harm Saudi Babies by Promoting “Safe” Formula

Pfizer's Saudi Arabia campaign to teach doctors safe baby milk practices is  like cigarette companies  promoting cancer prevention. In the book Understanding Breastfeeding in the...

A Growing Gulf Dependent on Imported Food

Skyscrapers (even rotating!) and dreams of vertical farms, but not a greenhouse to be seen. The Gulf is growing more and more dependent on...

Dead Sea Herbs Offers Organic and Biblically Inspired Cosmetics

Dead Sea Herbs resurrects ancient Hebrew medicine practices to keep your skin beautiful. Sometimes, with our abundance of tools and technological devices that make modern...

Lebanese Lentil Soup recipe

What's more comforting on a chilly day than a cup of soup? Try our twist on a traditional Lebanese recipe. When fresh vegetables are scarce...

Jordan Tries To “Ketchup” After Heat And Pests Wilt Tomatoes

Leafminers tunnel their way through Middle Eastern tomato leaves. Can Jordan's crops "ketchup" in their wake? It is difficult to imagine a Middle Eastern home...

Palm Oil May be “Healthy” But Rainforests are Destroyed to Grow It

We may not realize it, but palm oil, made from both coconuts and palm nuts, is one of the main causes of the wholesale...

Cool, thick and hot Arabic almond milk recipes

Cool, soothing raw almond milk is great for hot days. But when winter arrives, enjoy a creamy, hot, Middle Eastern version. Almond milk, while it...

Quinoa Tabouleh Salad recipe

Try a new twist on traditional tabbouleh, with quinoa instead of bulgur. Tabbouleh or tabouleh is a standard part of mezze - the array of...

Beirut’s Souk el Tayeb Farmer’s Market Celebrates Healthy Local Food Traditions

What good is a farmer's market if it only appeals to a small group of people?  Beirut's Souk el Tayeb reaches out to the...

Egypt To Grab Sudanese Land To Meet Its Wheat Needs

Lacking sufficient water to grow enough wheat for its burgeoning population, Egypt (above pic of Suez Canal farm) looks to other Nile Basin countries...

Interview: Buying Local in Dubai With Baker & Spice’s Yael Mejia

In an interview with Green Prophet, Yael Mejia describes the benefits of buying fresh food locally. It was largely because of Yael Mejia's efforts...

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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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Farm To Table Israel is transforming the traditional dining experience into a hands-on journey.

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In Islamic tradition, there is a point where creation ends — a boundary that marks the limit of what any created being can reach. That boundary is called Sidrat al-Muntahā, often translated as “the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary.”

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