Wishing upon a star … The search for fusion energy heats up

Words Alia Fawaz Meeting the world's energy demands is one of the major challenges of our time. Our overdependence on fossil fuels to meet our...

Every breath you take…

It was summer, and the world smelled of roses and jasmine. The sunshine shimmered like powdered gold on the edge of blue wildflowers and...

“Thou Shall Respect and Protect Nature”?

WORDS NOUR EL HACHEM What if there were a commandment on a worldwide scale that said: “Thou Shall Respect and Protect Nature”? Could humans, think, believe, and...

SYMBOLIC GREEN GESTURES

Nature’s gifts cannot be valued in monetary terms. Like clean air, they are often taken for granted, at least until they become scarce.  This...

Heaven can wait Mount Pelion is the place to be

Words John Gray There are parts of Greece that are still relatively undiscovered with regard to tourism. One can say this about Mount Pelion, a...

Samara and Natalie Noureddine are capturing Lebanon’s abandoned spaces with their mobile phones

Words Bassam Alkantar Samara Noureddine says in an interview with Beyond: “Abandoned places have always sent me shivers down my spine and raised numerous questions...