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17.02.13
The sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced more scientific papers than 17 Arabic-speaking countries combined. The world’s 1.6 billion Muslims have produced only two Nobel laureates in chemistry and physics, both moved to the West. The 57 countries in the Organization of the Islamic Conference More...
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17.02.13
Billions of dollars are being spent by the Gulf States on cultural projects and museums, including ones dedicated to photography, cars and calligraphy. However, the most important of these projects are the so-called ‘national’ museums that ideally would tell the story of the country. Major projects are in the pipeline More...
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14.10.12
The Bee’ah School of Environment (BSOE), an education initiative created by a United Arab Emirates-based environmental and waste management company, recently announced it is expanding its networks in the eastern and central region of Sharjah, engaging with 160,000 students in over 200 schools. The BSOE envisions an expansion of this More...
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28.08.12
April 13, 1975 - one of the darkest dates in Lebanese history. An attack on a busload of Palestinians in Beirut that day sparked a civil war that would rage for 15 years, leaving some 150,000 dead, the capital divided along sectarian lines and sections of the country in ruins. More...
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13.08.12
The ‘Adopt A Negotiator’ project is looking for young bloggers and activists from the region to take part in the Doha Climate Change Conference this November. Are you a budding blogger with an interest in the environment? Or maybe a video journalist with a passion for social issues? Well, if More...
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29.07.12
Educators Michael Gohde and Molly Van Cleave dreamed up this novel project over three years ago as a means to exercise all the skills in an 8th grader’s backpack. Amman’s American Community School is a melting pot of culture, religion, income and family make-up. It started as a way to More...
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17.06.12
In nearly two thirds of Middle Eastern countries, there are more women than men in university, according to United Nations statistics. This is a giant step towards -- and in many cases beyond -- one of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals: to eliminate gender disparity in all levels of More...
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22.04.12
A group of journalism students has moved to tackle alarming obesity rates and their continued rise in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) through a website aimed at raising awareness and preventing the epidemic’s further spread. The site, http://www.qatarsweetepidemic.org , to helpunravel the crisis of diabetes and obesity in Qatar, is More...
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09.04.12
The Higher Colleges of Technology, the largest higher education institution in the United Arab Emirates, and Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania, are getting serious about green entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa by having launched the More...
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02.04.12
The University of Qatar has commissioned a research vessel for its Environmental Studies Centre. "The vessel Jinan will contribute to finding a new generation of Qatari researchers," Dr. Shaikha Al Misnad, the university president, said. "They will contribute to supporting and protecting the environment of Qatar through multiple studies. The More...
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