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Tunisian Water Distributor Puts People Ahead of Commerce Amid Shortages

A sweltering heat wave has swept through Tunisia, disrupting both electrical and water supplies just days before Ramadan begins. Extreme heat destabilizes electrical cables, with...

Obese Gulf Boy Suffers Fatal Heart Attack Aboard Flight to Bangkok

The Gulf obesity epidemic in has come under increased scrutiny recently. Supersized boys and girls are barely recognizable and four of the world’s fattest countries...

Spencer Tunick Plans Naked Dead Sea Shoot Anniversary Float

Spencer Tunick will return to Israel this September to celebrate the anniversary of last year’s wildly controversial Dead Sea naked photo shoot. Designed to draw...

President Morsi Takes on Nile River Issues in Ethiopia

On his first visit to Ethiopia as President of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi stressed his country’s desire to peacefully negotiate with other Nile Basin countries regarding...

Floating Power Plants from Turkey to Ease Energy Cuts in Lebanon

Like Egypt, Israel, and the Palestinian territories, Lebanon has been slammed with energy shortages this summer. In some parts of the country, outside of Beirut,...

Star Wars Fans Restore Luke Skywalker’s Homestead in Tunisia

In 2010 Mark Dermul from Belgium led a tour of the remaining Star Wars relics scattered throughout Tunisia’s desert. It wasn’t the first time he...

Dubai’s Radisson Blu Goes Green

On the grand scale of greenliness, the Radisson Blu scores pretty low, but they are making an effort that is worth writing about. On a...

Lebanon’s Trash Gets an Audience With The (B)IM Project Play

We’ve often wondered: do people in the Middle East just not see the trash that has taken over their lives? 10453: A Story About Life...

Computer-Controlled Mashrabiya Keeps Abu Dhabi’s Al Bahar Towers Cool

Few elements are more distinctive to Middle Eastern design than the ancient Mashrabiya screens used to keep homes cool, and now recent strides in technology...

Sustainable clothing inspiration

Let’s face it, eco-friendly clothing is hard to come by in the Middle East. Desire to own the top brand names at whatever financial cost...
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