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December 14, 2025

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The Art of Resilience – How Palestinian Fashion Designers Are Redefining Sustainable Fashion

Not only a personality, but also an art, of fashion resistance is being adopted by Palestinian fashion designers when they enter green and environmental fashion. They glance back at their previous rainbow-colored and...

Aquifer to Oasis: Jordan Water-Saving Technologies Catching Waves Globally

By Rana Al-Kilani ~ In a nation plagued by furnace heat of sunbeams, where rain showers are as will-o'-the-wisp an event as desert mirages on off-to-the-horizon before one's eyes, Jordan is logging a...

Women Pioneers: Egypt’s Female Trailblazers Carving New Ground

By Salma Naguib ~ From boardroom and courtroom to operating theatre and art gallery, Egypt's women are not only asserting themselves in public life but are also making it. Breaking the old limits and writing a new script, Egypt's new generation of women are creating themselves in politics, science, business, and culture and setting the country's agenda with a more pluralist and richer discourse. As Egypt transitions to Vision 2030, women are a national and policy pride market. Egyptian women leaders are breaking glass ceilings and forging new paths to development for the ages with strength, resilience, and vision. Government & Policy: Women in Charge Egypt currently has a record eight women in...

Peace Through Sport: Jordanian athletes bring peace into the world and back home

By Tareq Samara ~ As the sun sets behind Amman hills, a standing ovation in a stadium filled to capacity welcomes Palestinian and Jordanian...

Heritage Fashion – Breaking Culture into Global Fashion by Turkish Fashion Designers

By Olivia Bennett ~ Fashion is so eager these days to go loose and wild with the passing world, increasingly Turkish fashion designers are looking for inspiration for models in something eternal—herititage. Treasure chests of over a millennium of heritagand...

Aegean to Anatolian Heartland – Unveiling the Hidden Treasures of Turkey.

By Margaret Ellis ~ Where they recall Türkiye, Istanbul cityscape silhouette or blue Aegean shores beach. But a different story of Turkey—where time slumbers, millennia hold the stones of tangle old worlds in awe, and gracious hosts are no obstacle to be overcome but an art to be savored. That is Anatolia, a history-shy and king-like nation with so much history, culture, and geography to burst the heart. Hattusa: Impressions of the Hittite Empire Hidden deep in north-central Turkey is the Hattusa,...

Both Israel and Palestinian supporters accuse the other side of genocide – here’s what the term actually means

Alexander Hinton, Rutgers University - Newark - Is genocide taking place in the Middle East? On both sides of the conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip, many answer with an unequivocal “yes.” Some Israelis...

Rejuvenate & Recharge – Wellness Retreats That Transform Lives

It's often said that the best way to find oneself is to step away from the daily grind and...

Where the Past Come Alive – Turkey’s Ancient Cities and New Wonders

By Elizabeth Warren ~ This is not living in another nation in this world where past and present were sewn...

Kuwait Youth Power Innovation and Civic Renewal

Liberal activism, as well as innovation, have in recent years been spearheaded by Kuwait through a new and visionary...