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Lend your nationality and swap passports to those in need

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Dutch Design Week 2015 is a misnomer, the event actually runs over nine days across 100 locations displaying the experiments and ideas of 2400 designers,...

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London calling: Gulf elite caught in conspicuous consumption

Faisal O'Keefe - October 19, 2015

Critically acclaimed Scottish photographer Dougie Wallace has stepped on some well-heeled toes with his latest documentary project where he turns his lens to the...

Health

Syria’s seedbank seeds sent for safety to Morocco

Karin Kloosterman - October 18, 2015

Whenever I read the news about Syria's refugee and environmental crisis I wonder how Syria's dictator Bashar Al-Assad's wife Asma al-Assad, once so vocal...

Lifestyle

The Martian stars the Wadi Rum Desert and every Sci-Fi book we love

Brian Nitz - October 18, 2015

Ridley Scott's, The Martian is based on Andy Weir's best-selling novel. It was filmed in Jordan's beautiful Wadi-Rum desert. Hollywood loves adventure stories, especially tales of...

Lifestyle

Love Story: Jordanian newlyweds share their wedding with refugees

Faisal O'Keefe - October 11, 2015

Why blow your wedding bucks on one extravaganza when you can hold two for the same price? Jordanian newlyweds Mutaz Mango and Basma Omar...

Lifestyle

The beauty of ecotourism in Israel

Green Prophet Guest - May 2, 2016

Most visitors to Israel concentrate on exploring the many biblical, cultural, and historical sites that abound Israel. And rightfully so! Israel has been...

Lifestyle

Hebrew Roots of 10 English Words

Faisal O'Keefe - September 25, 2025

From Yiddish to Hebrew, our everyday English is full of borrowed words. From mensch to maven, these cultural hand-me-downs remind us that language—like people—travels, blends, and connects us all.

Health

World’s best eatery NOMA reborn as an urban farm

Faisal O'Keefe - September 17, 2015

Celebrity chef and foraging superstar René Redzepi told the New York Times on Monday that he is closing his Copenhagen restaurant Noma at the end of...

Design

This UAE birthday cake could send 740,000 refugee kids to school

Faisal O'Keefe - September 14, 2015

Marie Antoinette has nothing on the wealthy Arab clients who commissioned a cake commemorating their daughter's combo birthday and engagement party. The confection whipped...

Health

Costa Rican tourists thwart sea turtle nesting, a surreal mirroring of the crisis in the Med

Faisal O'Keefe - September 12, 2015

This story is not about the Middle East, although the images are a surreal reminder of what is happening on our Mediterranean shores -...

Lifestyle

Turkish couple invited 4,000 Syrian refugees to their wedding feast!

Faisal O'Keefe - August 5, 2015

Quick! What's the best wedding you ever attended? Youtube archives threaten to break the internet with flash mob proposals, bridal party dance antics, and epic...

Lifestyle

Earth up for sale – save it by buying it!

Karin Kloosterman - August 5, 2015

Back in high school we bought a few acres of rainforest in Brazil - to save it. To stop illegal logging. To preserve biodiversity....

Lifestyle

Small scale farming twice as old as we thought

Karin Kloosterman - October 5, 2016

Big agriculture is mainstream in the US, but growing our food has a long history. Until now, researchers believed farming was "invented" some 12,000...

Cities

Crime doesn’t pay! Israeli antiquity thief agrees.

Faisal O'Keefe - July 15, 2015

Two 2,000-year-old sling stones were mysteriously dropped in the courtyard of the Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures (MINEC) in Be’er Sheva last week. Also called "sling...

Lifestyle

International airports source local farm food in 30 countries

Karin Kloosterman - July 8, 2015

Following an international trend pressuring large food chains to think local and source local food, Autogrill, the multinational company known for its motorway and...

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