Tag: development

Submarine Rail Linking Morocco and Spain Gets UN Push

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is pushing to revive a thirty year old plan to build...

5 of Turkey’s Most Unsustainable Development Projects

Turkey's Taksim square protest flared up last week when police took drastic measures to clear activists from Gezi Park-...

Crushers Reduce Emirate Mountaintops to Rubble in the Name of “Progress”

Green Prophet's resident photographer documents "cut" Hajar Mountains in the United Arab Emirates. Huge swaths of the Hajar Mountains in...

Egypt is Close to Bridging the Distance to Saudi

The Egyptian government announced earlier this week that a plan to bridge the distance between Egypt and Saudi Arabia...

Post-Oil Stagnation in Kuwait at the Venice Biennale

Kuwait is making its debut at the 13th Venice Biennale this year, and they're doing so with some serious...

Z: The Anonymous Tunisian Cartoonist Championing Nature

 'Z' is an anonymous cartoonist whose pink flamingo trademark came about due to his efforts to stop development projects...

Qatar Fire: Expatriates Furious Over Officials’ Lackadaisical Attitude

Ten minutes after a fire broke out in Doha's Villaggio Mall yesterday, an expatriate and Doha News reader Paula Rodrigues...

World’s Largest Artificial Lagoon Nears Completion in Egypt, Despite Chaos

When we first learned about the 120,000 square meter artificial lagoon in Sharm el Sheikh designed to be the...

Sinai’s Ecological Future Hangs in the Balance

As part of the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, the Sinai Peninsula was restored to Egyptian control - an event...

A Culture Shock Hangover in Tunisia’s Second City

After a rough time in Tunis, Tafline pushed past a culture shock hangover to appreciate Tunisia's second largest city. When...

Geoscientists Say Oman is Sinking and Shrinking

Scientists discover that every year Oman loses a little bit more of its landmass to rising sea levels. Within the...

Israel Animals Killed By Economic Development

Once common, animals and porcupines like this one are now becoming rare in Israel as development surges, and open...