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Landfill: Where Dubai’s Building Rubble Piles Up

Richard Allenby Pratt - May 13, 2013

My last photo blog on Green Prophet featured one of the many sites in the Hajar Mountains from which construction aggregate is extracted. This...

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World Nomads Festival: Tunisian Crafts Make Big City Debut in NYC

Tafline Laylin - May 9, 2013

For the entire month of May, the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) is celebrating Tunisia in the aftermath of the Arab Spring and this weekend...

Lifestyle

Spring Festival is in Egyptian Air Marked by Petrified, Stinky, Toxic Fish

Faisal O'Keefe - May 9, 2013

Sporadic street violence, economic distress and political polarization were mostly put on ice this past Sunday as Egyptians of all classes and religions held...

Design

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

Laurie Balbo - Karin Kloosterman - June 18, 2013

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...

Lifestyle

Desert Soccer Pitches Reveal Arab Obsession with Football

Tafline Laylin - May 8, 2013

Ask yourself: if you lived in the deep desert, where the sand burns your soles at midday, would you run outside and play soccer?...

Lifestyle

Common Sex Book for Orthodox Jews: Is it Kosher?

Faisal O'Keefe - June 6, 2022

A quiet little how-to book has been translated into Hebrew offering basic sex education to Israel's Orthodox Jews. "The Newlywed's Guide to Physical Intimacy”,...

Lifestyle

Flight Attendants as Maids? Airline Should Clean Up Its Act

Faisal O'Keefe - May 5, 2013

A Chinese airline attracted a media mess after announcing plans to dress its cabin crew as maids and butlers. Low-cost carrier Spring Airlines unveiled...

Health

Israel Arrests Ten 269life Animal Rights Activists, 300 Protest in Tel Aviv

Tafline Laylin - May 3, 2013

As part of their campaign to make "the walls of slaughter houses transparent," a guerrila animal rights group in Israel recently scattered the heads...

Book Reviews

Clock Book – Recipes From a Modern Moroccan Kitchen, by Tara Stevens

Miriam Kresh - July 3, 2013

We've posted about the Cafe Clock blog here, including the recipe for its famous camel burger. In this delightful cookbook, Stevens includes recipes from...

Book Reviews

The Gulf Monarchies and Climate Change – A Book Review

Arwa Aburawa - July 3, 2013

Working in Qatar has clearly given the academic Mari Luomi access to lots of information about the climate change rhetoric and reality of the...

Lifestyle

Turkey’s “A Few Brave People” Wins Best Feature Film at Abu Dhabi’s Green Carpet Ceremony

Tafline Laylin - April 29, 2013

A Few Brave People by Turkish director Rüya Arzu Köksal won the Golden Deer Award for Best Feature Film at the inaugural Abu Dhabi International Environmental...

Lifestyle

Learning to Green Your Pilgrimage

Miriam Kresh - November 1, 2014

Treading the path of righteousness involves the ecology too. It had never occurred to me that if I were to go camping on Mt. Meron...

Lifestyle

Jordan Talks Plastic Waste: Action Wanted!

Faisal O'Keefe - September 22, 2020

Random dumping and burning of plastic garbage, which constitutes a fifth of the Kingdom’s solid waste, are negatively affecting the environment and public health, said a Jordanian official.

Book Reviews

‘Beacons – Stories For Our Not So Distant Future’ Are Climate Shorts

Arwa Aburawa - July 3, 2013

A great collection of short stories inspired by the ecological crisis which are honest, creative and sometimes really funny I don't know if it's just...

Lifestyle

Turkish Barber Turns His Shop into a Mini Recycling Center

Tafline Laylin - April 21, 2013

The barbershop tradition in Turkey is far more vibrant than the Hair Cutteries of America. In Turkey, men gather for their weekly shave and...

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