Ask yourself: if you lived in the deep desert, where the sand burns your soles at midday, would you run outside and play soccer? No...

When “Biggest Loser” coach Orly Hoffman Bar approached Toledo-Lifschitz Architecture & Design with an idea to convert a vacant space north of Tel Aviv into...

Whether or not a 100,000 square meter office complex could possibly come with even a net environmental benefit is debatable, but the fact that a...

Refrigeration is perhaps one of the greatest inventions of modern man, but it has come at a price. Not only do they require a great...

You might not be able to strut around in a thong or sun tan topless in the Middle East (unless you are at the Naked...

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

In Egypt, people often have to line up for hours to fill their cars and trucks with diesel fuel – particularly during summer months when...

Every three years, the Aga Khan Architecture Award acknowledges projects relevant to Islam that are culturally, environmentally and socially superior. Accompanied by a generous $1...

To the outside world, Yemen is an obscure distant land where Al Qaeda terrorists hang out and men sit around chewing khat, but to its...

Oman is a small and increasingly popular country that borders Abu Dhabi, the home of Masdar City and the Shams 1 concentrated solar power plant,...