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Molasses, or black treacle is Egypt’s favorite sugar

Egyptians love sugar cane molasses, referred to in Arabic as asal eswed ("black honey"), for its sweet taste, and also its perceived health benefits. These...

Barcelona Rejects Soaring Dubai-Style “Space Hotel”

A US developer recently approached Barcelona City Hall with plans to build a soaring Dubai-style “Space Hotel” complete with a zero gravity spa, but the...

Cairo’s Waste-Eating Pigs Make a Quiet Comeback

In 2009 during the height of the swine flu epidemic, Egyptian law officials ordered the culling of thousands of pigs belonging to the Coptic Christian...

Lebanon’s Capital Suffers Nine Hour Extreme Power Cuts

Imagine for a second that Washington D.C., London, Brussels or Denmark ran out of power for up to nine hours every single day for the...

Despite Ruinous Bridge, Saudi and Egypt Vow to Protect the Red Sea

Just months after announcing that the ruinous scheme to construct a land and sea bridge between Saudi Arabia and Egypt is still on track, officials...

Jewish Girls Gone Wild? Marijuana Lab Found in Haredi School

When authorities discovered a lab full of marijuana plants in a bomb shelter beneath an all girls Orthodox Jewish school south of Tel Aviv, they...

Nir Meiri’s Marine Light is a Sustainable Seaweed Lamp You Can Eat

Tel Aviv’s Nir Meiri recently unveiled Marine Light – a curious lamp shade made entirely of seaweed wrapped around a spindly metal frame. Eaten by coastal people...

Why the 400ppm CO2 Milestone is so Important

Charles David Keeling began recording CO2 levels at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory in 1958, back when concentrations hovered at around 315 parts per million. Five...

Chillout Cafe: Dubai’s First Ice Lounge Makes its Chilling Debut

Ice hotels are fairly commonplace in northern countries where temperatures regularly fall below freezing, but that didn’t stop the Sharaf Group from opening an ice...

UN: Eat Beetles and Crickets to Fight World Hunger

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently issued a report calling for wider uptake of insect for food and feed. Facebook Comments Comments
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