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Social Sciences Sep 19, 2017

Interactive tool offers window into history of Arab-Americans in NYC

Researchers at North Carolina State University are unveiling an interactive site that allows scholars and the public to better understand the long history of Syrian and Lebanese immigrants to the United States. Focused on ...

Social Sciences Sep 6, 2017

More stringent rape laws reduce chances a country will face civil war, study finds

Countries that have longer punitive sentences for rape crimes are less likely to have civil war and strife, according to a new study led by a University of Kansas researcher.

Other Sep 1, 2017

British ban on cabin laptops to be lifted: EgyptAir

Passengers flying with EgyptAir from Cairo to Britain will again be allowed to carry personal electronic devices in aircraft cabins, the North African country's national carrier said on Friday.

Environment Aug 29, 2017

Lebanon gets first animal protection law

Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Tuesday signed the country's first animal welfare bill into law, guaranteeing that domestic and wild animals will be legally protected from abuse.

Archaeology Aug 22, 2017

Wild sheep grazed in the Black Desert 14,500 years ago

Excavations of architecture and associated deposits left by hunter-gatherers in the Black Desert in eastern Jordan have revealed bones from wild sheep - a species previously not identified in this area in the Late Pleistocene. ...

Environment Aug 18, 2017

In Lebanon, salt producers fear craft is drying up

At 93, Elias al-Najjar has spent half a century harvesting salt by hand from ponds on Lebanon's Mediterranean shore, but he and his colleagues fear their way of life is dying.

Biotechnology Jul 27, 2017

Present-day Lebanese descend from Biblical Canaanites, genetic study suggests

In the most recent whole-genome study of ancient remains from the Near East, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute scientists and their collaborators sequenced the entire genomes of 4,000-year-old Canaanite individuals who inhabited ...

Social Sciences Jul 20, 2017

New wiki site to unmask dealings of tobacco industry in Sri Lanka

A major new online project, TobaccoUnmasked, designed to reveal the activities and influences of the tobacco industry on public health policy, has been launched in Sri Lanka on the back of the success of TobaccoTactics – ...

Environment Jul 18, 2017

War-torn South Sudan at grave risk on climate change

"I'm addicted to cutting trees," says Taban Ceasor.

Ecology Jul 6, 2017

Jellyfish invasion stirs debate over Egypt's Suez Canal

Swarms of jellyfish have descended on Egypt's northern coast, keeping vacationers out of the water and stirring debate over a recent expansion of the Suez Canal.

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