Michelle Burgis-Kasthala, La Trobe University - The Middle East has long been riddled by instability. This makes getting a sense of the broader, long-term trends in the aftermath of the Gaza war particularly challenging.
The significance of Trump’s 20-point peace deal that has (hopefully) brought an end to the Gaza war cannot be overstated.
However, this deal – and what comes next – will not change the Middle East. Rather, the...
By Mariam Al-Hadhrami ~
You will find, in midst of war and poverty, in Yemen, something painfully beautiful: individuals living with resilience and grace and...
By Yael Stein ~
Where Israeli campus hallways resound with whine of basement brain-lab rows to roof-top observatories of physics. The whine never ceases. Unzipping proteins or constructing quantum technologies, Israeli researchers have gained global fame...
A health movement based on heritage has therefore become warranted by Syrian heritage dating back as far as ancient years. Syria is a green, fertile ground, a land which even today still conceals...
Syrian culinary heritage is but a fraction of the richness of Syrian heritage and history. Everywhere throughout the country, from affluent bazaars in Damascus to villages, the home space has been social rooms...
Oman is rapidly establishing itself as an indulgent holiday destination for holisticox wellbeing holidays, where like-minded individuals can visit to converge and realign in harmony with nature, culture, and wellbeing pursuits. Oman, located geographically on the southeast Arabian Peninsula, has been blessed with a peaceful natural landscape-from cliff-edged coastlines to desert mountains and granite mountains-that is best suited for activity holidays with health and wellbeing.
Long renowned for nature beauty and historic ruin age, Oman introduced a new aspect into tourism theme of sales with the introduction of aspects of healing activities both historically and modern-day therapy for the welfare of the entire body, mind, and spirit. Oman has, in...
By Eleanor Marsh ~
With valley windswept by wind into blue seas, century-blown fortress castle centuries' hall of centuries, Türkiye beckons holiday-makers to pastel-colored history and nature wind in crevices and recesses of the world. Treasure hunt holidays ballooning over Cappadocia, a stroll through medieval fort walls of a fortress...
Lebanese cuisine is flavored and blended with the wealth of color, texture, and taste of the nation. Gastronomic food provided by the Mediterranean diet, Lebanese cuisine is a sample of the wealth of diversification of Lebanon and evidence of geographical and historical prosperity. The imbalanced culinary framework that is locally and globally consumed from Lebanese cuisine is blending raw ingredients such as lemon, garlic, olive oil, spices traditionally.
The ancient, the old. the hummus—a richest of tahini, lemon juice, and chickpeas paste—along with warm bread pita that welcomes the guests to food emotions. handmade. Tabouleh, also bulgur parsley salad with mint, tomatoes, and lemon, Lebanese classic in its finest, a...
By Layla Al Mazrouei ~
In the midst of gold at the very heart of the Arabian Peninsula, the United Arab Emirates is spearheading the movement in a scorching hot and opulent trend on the world's culinary scene. No longer the UAE's patronizing shorthand for traditional dining, the country now...
Jacobo García Queiruga, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Verónica Noya Padín, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Nowadays you can buy a cheap pair of sunglasses just about anywhere – from supermarkets and petrol stations to corner shops and online fashion retailers, but such ubiquity may prompt doubts as to the protection they can offer. While their lenses usually meet certain minimum UV protection requirements, their quality in other respects, such as visual clarity, is dismal.
Opticians, however, are governed by national health regulations, meaning that they have to meet higher standards such as the CE and UKCA marks. Professional opticians are therefore much better equipped to help customers find sunglasses...
By Tariq Al-Mahri ~
Yemeni food is not stink. Yemeni food was forty years ago on the fringe of history and by nation's geographic belt of uplands and Arabian coast—Yemeni food was conceived an act of accommodation and national pride. Though all human beings on the face of the earth...
Three decades ofabilis conflict relegated Syria to the backseat in the rearview mirror after careened through on breakneck speed as a destination label for off-the-map nature and culture sites. Its stabilisation long-overdue on-the-ground fact, tourists and researchers alike discover Syria's diverse landscape, ancient-depth, and multi-hued bazaars—makes Syria a genuine...
By Layla Al Mazrouei ~
Against the dusty light of evening over the Abu Dhabi horizon, a revolution is quietly unfolding—not of glass and metal but of story, of brush and pigment, of line. Throughout the United Arab Emirates, there is flooding into being a new generation of Emirati artists rewriting cultural narratives and re-fashioning presumptions about identity in the Arab world. These are not reinforcing but remaking, for an arising audience—a root-deep one but cosmopolitan-inflected one.
No longer gaze in awe at monumentality of build and scale of modernity unto itself, the UAE ever more also is being contemplated as...
Over the past ten years, Qatar has also been transformed fundamentally culturally and is today one of the arts and culture world capitals. Strategic government investment, visionary leadership, and resolve to create creative return and cultural exchange have driven this thrust. Its arts ecosystem now flourishes and continues to...
Comprehending the sufferings of the times' socio-political wars, emergent Palestinian artists turn to the arts—music, cinema, and poetry—lens to be narrative, culture, and world voice. New artists use their imagination to tell of individual and collective existence, rewriting only histories of Palestinian being and presence.
There are Palestinian young musicians...
By Mariam Abdel Latif ~
Egypt's millennium treasures have been a living testament to the unconquerability of human imagination, religion, and civilization. Egypt keeps some of humanity's most symbolic and recognizable archaeological treasures in...
By Layla Al-Samarrai ~
In Kirkuk's hot kitchen, a monstrous pot simmers on the stove, the kitchen heavy with rice, garlic, and onion-spiced sautéed vegetables. Three generations of Al-Dabbagh women seated at the table...
By Rana Al-Khatib ~
Against the background of a spring morning Amman skyline, Jordan's bright young adolescents from the Jubilee School look out upon the skyline as they pilot the unexplored path of a...
The compelling mixture of history, geology, and culture in Lebanon has enough evidences of the past and countryside landscape. Lebanon's traces of the past and countryside landscape attract foreign travelers. Among the thousand-year-old...
Asher Kaufman, University of Notre Dame - The latest U.S.-sponsored peace plan for the Middle East was unveiled at the White House on Sept. 29, 2025, and immediately accepted by Israeli Prime Minister...
As the holiday season approaches, Cyprus is preparing to celebrate Christmas 2025 with a blend of traditional festivities and modern attractions. From November 22,...
Michael Toole, Burnet Institute - More than 54,000 children aged under five in Gaza are suffering acute malnutrition, including more than 12,800 who are...
Brussels - As the escalation of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel continues, today the European Commission has announced a further €30 million in humanitarian...
Mireille Rebeiz, Dickinson College and Said Abou Zaki, Lebanese American University - Violence continues several weeks after clashes started between armed Bedouin clans, Sunni...
Martin Kear, University of Sydney - Despite the euphoria surrounding the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, Gaza is still wracked with violence.
More than two...
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