Aisha Abdelhamid 04 December, 2021 With some religious occasions occurring in one of the hottest months of the year for those of us in the northern hemisphere, and the one…
Ibn al-Wafid – creator of the oldest botanical garden in Europe
The works of the Andalusian agronomist and pharmacist Ibn al-Wafid have been translated into Latin, Catalan and Hebrew and published many times in Europe, Filaha reports. Abu al-Mutaarrif Abd ar-Rahman…
How are countries in the Middle East coping with climate change?
Climate change, water scarcity and declining oil revenues: The Middle East and North Africa face enormous environmental challenges. Christopher Resch spoke about this with political scientist Tobias Zumbreigel, who studies how…
Ibn Sina’s experiment included in medical textbooks
An experiment carried out about 1000 years ago by Ibn Sina and proving the influence of a mental state on a physical one was included in medical textbooks, writes Professor…
