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Ancient Recipes, New Plate: Oman’s Cuisine Goes Beyond the Gulf

Old Omani cuisine, as rich as with all its centuries of experience, is fast making waves wherever culinary masterminds of this time and chefs themselves are able to relish the real flavor and...

Nature’s Remedy: Applying Yemeni Mountain Peoples’ Health through Nature and Tradition

By Amal Al-Sanani ~ As you ride across Yemeni valleys and mountains, you cannot help but notice that the inhabitants of a place like this have learned to appreciate nature — nature that...

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...

Turkish Past Legacy Safeguarded by Heritage, Future Sealed with Lit

By Claire Whitman ~ In Türkiye, confining the past in crumbling stone vessels of words is not needed. Heritage flourishes there—on skilled hands of artists, whorl of pots kneaded round by village cooks, whizz of skirted dancers, and voice of...

Israel and Hezbollah step back from war, but for how long? All eyes are now on Iran’s next move

Ian Parmeter, Australian National University - For weeks, Israel had been anticipating a major attack from Hezbollah in retaliation for its killing of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Lebanon at the end of July. In the early hours of Sunday, that attack finally came – and Israel was apparently ready. The Israelis claim to have thwarted what could have been a large-scale Hezbollah assault. At the same time, Hezbollah also...

Smokers have a higher level of harmful bacteria in the mouth – new study

Yvonne Prince, Cape Peninsula University of Technology; Glenda Mary Davison, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and Tandi Matsha-Erasmus, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University A recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that...

A Nation of Nobel Minds: Israel’s Emerging Legacy of Science and Scholarship

By Yael Stein ~ Where Israeli campus hallways resound with whine of basement brain-lab rows to roof-top observatories of physics....