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IMF: Cut Energy Subsidies and Reduce Global CO2 by 13 Percent

Climate change is one of the most urgent issues of our time, yet most countries in the Middle East and North Africa continue to...

Landfill: Where Dubai’s Building Rubble Piles Up

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Desert Soccer Pitches Reveal Arab Obsession with Football

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

Common Sex Book for Orthodox Jews: Is it Kosher?

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”,...

Flight Attendants as Maids? Airline Should Clean Up Its Act

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...

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

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

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

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...

The Gulf Monarchies and Climate Change – A Book Review

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

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

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...

Learning to Green Your Pilgrimage

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...

Jordan Talks Plastic Waste: Action Wanted!

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.

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

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...

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PETA will pay meat workers $10,000 to blow the whistle. Is that a good thing?

PETA is offering $10,000 for reporting mislabelled meat.

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Gluten-free ptitim orez is also made by Eshbal Functional Food's Barili Free Living line of gluten-free products.

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Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

Walk through almost any Saudi city today and one form dominates residential streets: the detached villa, sitting on its own plot, separated from its neighbors, usually surrounded by a wall and reached by car. It feels thoroughly Saudi. But much of the architectural DNA of the modern Saudi house comes from American suburbia.

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The Financial Impact of Meta Glasses on Europe’s Eyewear Market

Smart glasses are changing the economics of eyewear by turning conventional frames into higher-priced technology products. What used to be mainly a sale built around frame design, lenses, prescription needs and brand preference is now also a sale built around cameras, audio, AI features, app support and connected-device setup.
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