Dubai Ruler Offers $1 Million For Solar-Powered Solution to Global Water Shortage

The prize is up for grabs for institutions across the globe not just in the UAE. Sheikh Mohammed’s prize offering coincided with the establishment of UAE Water Aid Foundation.

Brandon Baker
By Brandon Baker

ECOWATCH -- A research institute stands to win $1 million from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and vice president of the United Arab Emirates. It’s no easy task, though. Al Maktoum is searching for a sustainable solution to solve the global water shortage. What’s more—he is requiring that solution to be powered by solar

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Activists Say 2013 Dark Year For Saudi Rights

With global attention focused on upheaval elsewhere in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia quietly intensified its clampdown on dissent in 2013.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With global attention focused on upheaval elsewhere in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia quietly intensified its clampdown on dissent in 2013, silencing democracy advocates and human rights defenders with arrests, trials and intimidation in what reformists say was one of the darkest years ever for their efforts in the

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Pakistan: Musharraf Reappears In Court After Initially Fleeing Arrest

Pakistani police arrested Pervez Musharraf on Friday, a day after the former military dictator fled a courtroom to avoid being taken into custody. The ex-general reappeared in an Islamabad court under heavy security on Friday morning. A judge ruled Musharraf should be held in custody for 48 hours before he appears in an anti-terrorism court […]

Allison Jackson
By Allison Jackson

Pakistani police arrested Pervez Musharraf on Friday, a day after the former military dictator fled a courtroom to avoid being taken into custody. The ex-general reappeared in an Islamabad court under heavy security on Friday morning. A judge ruled Musharraf should be held in custody for 48 hours before he appears in an anti-terrorism court to

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Showdown In Kuwait Highlights Free Speech Restrictions Across Gulf

KUWAIT CITY — Outside a palm-shaded villa in suburban Kuwait City, government security forces are taunted and defied each night by supporters of a former lawmaker ordered to prison for insulting the emir of this tiny nation. It’s a local showdown, but the anger and resistance outside the ex-parliament member’s home has the potential to […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press

KUWAIT CITY — Outside a palm-shaded villa in suburban Kuwait City, government security forces are taunted and defied each night by supporters of a former lawmaker ordered to prison for insulting the emir of this tiny nation. It's a local showdown, but the anger and resistance outside the ex-parliament member's home has the potential to

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25th Anniversary of Iran-Iraq War: The Beginning Of Iraq’s Demise

A photojournalist’s tale of the immediate aftermath of “Flanders Fields, without the mud.”

Norbert Schiller
By Norbert Schiller

This spring marks a very significant anniversary for me.  Not only is it 10 years since the 2003 Iraq conflict, but it also marks 25 years since I first covered Iraq’s final offensive to reclaim land which was captured by Iran during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. Foreign journalists were rarely allowed on either battlefront during the Iran-Iraq

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