In This Issue

Water, Water, Everywhere?

Famed for its luxury apartments, shopping malls and lush, green golf courses, Saudi Arabia’s capital city, Riyadh, flies in the face of everything we think we know about the parched, desert-locked Middle East. However, the very...

Solar Desalination for a Water-Stressed World

How two ambitious solar-powered desalination experiments in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, may provide a blueprint for reducing scarcity of the world’s most important resource. By Russell Sticklor Most nations...

Will the Sun Shine on Pakistan?

By Razya Kirmani   Steaming rubbish heaps, foul waterways, unexplained ailments, unexpected deaths – this is the reality of most modern developing countries. Those who can, retreat into bubbles of serenity; those who...

Turning petro-dollars into renewable energy technology: Why the Arab world is helping advance clean energy innovation

By Zarina Khan   The term ‘petrodollars’ may simply mean money earned from the sale of oil, but that it is not all that it implies. It is a loaded and political term used almost always in reference to Middle Eastern oil...

Winds of (Climate) Change

Muslim-Science.Com’s Ten Most Significant Climate Trends in the Muslim World   The theme for this month’s issue is ‘Science and the Environment’. The world is currently under a drastic environmental shift, as...