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The answer is that a full 97% of the Earth’s water is saline ocean water; only 3% is potentially potable. Even worse, over two thirds of that freshwater is tied up in glaciers and ice caps. In total, potable water More...
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Indicators such as gross domestic product and real and nominal growth rates have usually served as reliable compasses. In our case, it seems that 1 important factor has been underesteimated: Our Eductaion
Where Are We Now?
Ten years ago, there were barely More...
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These include: degradation of coastal areas due to rising sea levels, effects of climate change, increased urbanization – leading to increased urban pollution and its accompanying health problems – and loss of arable land. If a worst-case scenario were to More...
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Traditional distinction has followed one or more of the following three criteria:
1. Genealogical: someone who can trace his or her ancestry to the tribes of Arabia and the Syrian Desert;
2. Linguistic: a person whose mother tongue is Arabic, but many More...
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The most ecologically diverse ecosystem in the Middle East – the Mesopotamian Marshlands - certainly represent an important environmental challenge, but they also reflect a deep rooted historical and cultural significance that have recently shown positive signs of revival.
The Mesopotamian More...
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The Tigris and Euphrates rivers run through the region originally called Mesopotamia, or “the land between two rivers,” running south to the Arabian Gulf and providing the lowlands with water and rich, fertile silt. The Nile River provided a similar More...
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Think of the most mundane items on your supermarket shopping list and try to imagine how they can be turned into a work of art. Hassan Hajjaj manages to do just this and deliver a fantastic piece of pop art, More...
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Rachid Koraichi (b. 1947)
Rachid Koraichi’s work is influenced by traditional Arabic and North African crafts. Koraichi was born into a devout Algerian Sufi family. He studied in both the Higher Institute of Fine Arts and the National School of Decorative More...
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Coincidentally, Lessing’s five-volume science fiction series, Canopus in Argos, includes one novel about a planet suffering catastrophic climate change. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (one of the novels in the series) narrates an ice age besetting an More...
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Naguib Mahfouz (Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street, The Children of Gebelawy (1959), Miramar (1967)), Egypt, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988 after both bringing the Western idea of the novel to the Arab More...
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