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Arwa Aburawa
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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 am...
Jordan Puts Gender At Heart of Climate Change Policies
Jordan has become the first Arab country to ensure national climate change efforts include gender considerations Jordan’s environmental record may be patchy but as one...
Jordanian Activists Take To The Streets For A Sustainable Future
Activists gathered on the streets of Amman today to say ‘No’ to nuclear energy and ‘Yes’ to renewables Following years of anti-nuclear campaigning and (more...
Lebanon Green Designers Transform Washing Machines Into Beautiful Seats
With a bit of creativity and green spirit, old washing machine drums have been transformed into stunning seating by Xavier Baghdadi and Lea Kradokian From...
How Climate Change Contributed to The Syrian Uprising
Years of drought and mass displacement in Syria may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back and led to the ongoing uprising Following...
2012: Thousands Face Displacement Due to Middle Eastern Land Grab
Back in early 2012, Human Rights Watch warned that tens of thousands of Ethiopians were being made destitute so their land could be leased to foreign...
Saudi Arabia & Iran Are Overexploiting Their Groundwater Supplies
According to scientists from Canada and the Netherlands, the world is depleting underground water reserves faster than they can be replenished In the Middle East,...
Emirati Royalty Threaten 48,000 Maasai in Lucrative Hunting Deal
The Middle East's love affair with wild animals has hit the headlines again. No, there haven't been sightings of cheetahs on the streets of Dubai...
Iran Criticized For Response to Earthquake which Killed 306
These criticism have led some to speculate that the poor government response was due to the fact that those affected were mainly Azeri Turks, an...
Refugee Camp in Bethlehem Sprouts Green Rooftops
Supported by the women’s group Karama, families in Bethlehem’s Dheisheh refugee camp have begun growing fresh food on their rooftops Cramped conditions in the Dheisheh...
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