This is my contribution to the catalog of an art show curated in Malta by Niki Young. Aesthetics is conceptualized as an unusual degree of tension between objects and their own qualities.

Bruno Latour describes his Politics of Nature as work of political ecology. Its subtitle, "How to Bring the Sciences Into Democracy," suggests a specific and limited topic, albeit an interesting one. Yet what this book ...

Great attention was paid to develop new eco-friendly “green” materials with growing environmental awareness in recent years. Composites of environmental friendly reinforcements and resins that provide high performance at ...

MOOC discourses originating from the Global North can appear potentially colonizing to educators in the Global South. Even though the initial hype around MOOCs has died down, there is still an overall belief in the liberating ...

In the midst of the Lebanese civil war (1975-1991), two of Lebanon's main confessional communities, the Druzes and the Maronites, clashed in Al Chouf region in the southern area of Mount Lebanon. This sectarian rivalry ...

The issue of poverty is one of the major obstacles for economic and social development. Also, it is considered one of the key problems that negatively impact global economy. Egypt is one of the countries that suffered from ...

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NGOs are a vital partner and contributor to economic and social development, and an impactful tool for community participation in providing initiatives that the state might not able to implement. It is therefore important ...

This study is manly introducing a modified integrating method which is much suitable for smart grids. In smart grid the integration between the outputs of the renewable energy sources, such as solar energy, wind energy and ...