Travel Guide:middle East
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Climate Change Will Make These Major Cities Uninhabitable By 2100
This week, world leaders have come together in Paris for historic climate change talks — the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — to negotiate an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the globe. “[The] growing threat of climate change could define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other,” said President Obama this week at the summit.
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Fast and Furious: Abu Dhabi, the Hollywood of the Middle East
The Etihad Towers, five gleaming skyscrapers that range from 55 to 75 stories high, linger over the Abu Dhabi skyline. It’s these buildings that brought the production of Furious 7, the seventh installment in Universal’s The Fast and The Furious franchise, here in April of 2014. “There’s misconceptions all over Fox and CNN because when something really bad happens, like September 11th or ISIS or any type of terrorism, it’s so heavily publicized all over TV and newspapers,” Tyrese Gibson, one o
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Floating Alive on the Dead Sea
King David took refuge there, Herod the Great made it the first spa in the world, and Sodom and Gomorrah were said to have been located on its shores. Almost everyone passing through Jordan and Israel goes to “take the waters,” and I’ve always envied the pictures of people floating along, looking like they haven’t a care in the world. According to locals, the Dead Sea — so named because with 34.2 percent salinity, nothing can live in it — is like the Gold Bond ointment of lakes.
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WATCH: Behind the Veil: What Life Is REALLY Like for Women in the Middle East
You’ve seen women in burqas, niqabs, and abayas on the news — but how many do you actually know? And what is it like to wear one all the time?
