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What Can Islam Do For The Environment?

What can Islam do for the environment? That's a question I have been asking myself for some years now and, in all honestly, I...

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Learn Efficiently While You Sleep?

Cram for your exams while taking a cat nap? This Israeli study says you might be able to learn while you are asleep. Is sleep...

Dubai Bribes Recyclers With iPads and Cash

We probably shouldn't poke fun at the Dubai Municipality for bribing local residents with cash awards and iPads as part of their recently-launched My...

Egypt’s Electricity Suppliers Struggle to Meet Demand

On August 9th an electrical power outage hit people in parts of Cairo.  This happened only ten days after India's massive blackout grew to...

Honest By Clothing Reveals its 100% Transparent Fashion Line

Honest By's "transparent" green fashions leave nothing to hide Going to the mall or outlet store to buy clothing is not the greenest thing one can...

World’s First All-Women City Coming to Saudi Arabia

The patriarchal kingdom of Saudi Arabia creates an all-female city where (the arguably better half) of humanity can work freely, within Islamic guidelines. Saudi...

Are Saudi’s Female Olympians Sea Remnants, Harlots or Heros?

Olympians Wojdan Shaherkani and Sarah Attar landed world records before the Games even began. But online they battle a new war where social media...

Islam 101: Eid for Beginners

Learn the ropes of how to live in a Muslim country. Laurie goes over the 101 of Eid, Ramadan and some Muslim holiday rituals that might baffle the average westerner.

Solar Flare Super Storm Could Put Middle East in Darkness

Could we survive a massive  blackout caused by a solar super storm? The sun, our most important source of natural energy, light, and even nutrition...

Dancing With Hayatuna’s Creativity in Amman, Jordan

Swedish NGO uses Hayatuna - creative arts to provide new perspectives to kids in the Middle East As a Dance and Anthropology double major and...

Pundak Neot Semadar – An Improbable Organic Oasis in the Arava Desert

Sucked dry by an unforgiving sun, my travel companion and I were badly in need of hydration and nourishment yesterday afternoon. Frankly, I had...

Spencer Tunick Will Float Clothed at the Dead Sea

He asks hundreds of thousands of people around the world to strip for his cause, but when naked activist photographer Spencer Tunick returns to...

Arab Athletes by Brigitte Lacombe Celebrated at London Exhibit

Hey'Ya: Arab Women in Sport: Sisters Brigitte and Marian Lacombe celebrate Arab female athletes at London’s Sotheby’s Gallery. Last December, Qatar Museums Authority commissioned Brigitte...

How Green Are the Olympic Games?

Going into the London Olympic games, Green Prophet covered issues affecting Arab athletes who planned to compete in the 26th modern Olympiad since the...

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