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HAIFA, Israel - An Israeli start-up is being recognized for an innovative technology that's designed to make hydrogen fuel much more affordable. Israeli startup H2Pro has been named 'best company in the scale-up track' in Royal Dutch Shell's New Energy Challenge competition. H2Pro was one of five finalists, and the only one from Israel. First, a bit of background: Hydrogen […]
The post Israeli Hydrogen Startup Wins Shell Energy Competition first appeared on The Florida Star | The Georgia Star.
\t While no one claimed responsibility for the attack, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pointed the finger at Israel, calling the killing an act of ``\"state terror.''
\t ``Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice _ with serious indications of Israeli role _ shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,'' Zarif wrote on Twitter.
[African Arguments] Amid shifting dynamics in the Horn of Africa, South Sudan finds itself caught in the middle of regional rivalries.
… L. Fudge of Ohio, an African-American Democrat from Ohio.
Mr. Clyburn … owes a special debt to African-American voters, and that he wants …
The German census does not poll residents on race, following World War II, so there is no definitive number on the population of black people in Germany.
One report by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance estimates there are 200,000 to 300,000 black people living in Germany, although other sources guess that number is higher, upwards of 800,000.
Regardless of the specific numbers, which dont exist, black people are a minority in Germany, but they still are present and have played an important role in the countrys history.
In Germany, black people are typically referred to as Afro-Germans (Afrodeutsche) or black Germans (schwarze Deutsche).
Some historians claim that the first, sizable influx of Africans came to Germany from Germanys African colonies in the 19th century. Some black people living in Germany today can claim ancestry dating back five generations to that time. Yet Prussias colonial pursuits in Africa were quite limited and brief (from 1890 to 1918), and far more modest than the British, Dutch and French powers.
Prussias South West African colony was the site of the first mass genocide committed by Germans in the 20th century. In 1904, German colonial troops countered a revolt with the massacre of three-quarters of the Herero population in what is now Namibia.
It took Germany a full century to issue a formal apology to the Herero for that atrocity, which was provoked by a German extermination order (Vernichtungsbefehl).
Germany still refuses to pay any compensation to the Herero survivors, although it does provide foreign aid to Namibia.
After World War I, more blacks, mostly French Senegalese soldiers or their offspring, ended up in the Rhineland region and other parts of Germany.
Estimates vary, but by the 1920s, there were about 10,000 to 25,000 black people in Germany, most of them in Berlin or other metropolitan areas.
Until the Nazis came to power, black musicians and other entertainers were a popular element of the nightlife scene in Berlin and other large
Vibrant, diverse, and plentiful are a few words that describe the UAE’s culture and art scene, which also serves as a hub for regional creatives stemming from the Middle East and North Africa to share their work, before the pandemic.
To maintain this active community during the COVID-19 pandemic, the country supported residing artists across 25 fields of innovation in the creative sector by giving out about 140 financial grants.
Leading these efforts is the country’s Minister of Culture and Youth, Noura Al Kaabi.
The young minister is a staunch advocate of cultivating the arts locally and globally, seeing the culture and innovation industry as a way to promote UAE culture and innovation across the globe, in addition to contributing the emirate’s economic sustainability and growth.
Creative access
Noura Al Kaabi speaks to Inspire Middle East
Despite facing the challenges of empty cinemas and previously locked down art venues, Al Kaabi believes culture is never on hold, with the UAE’s response to the pandemic being proof of cultural resilience.
Looking at a post-COVID art scene the minister believes it will be reconstructed in a better way, taking advantage of practices developed during the pandemic.
“The advantage of getting your content or getting your work [to] transcend beyond a gallery border ... is how can we utilize such a platform,” Al Kaabi told Inspire Middle East, speaking about digitisation. “Isn't the role of culture for it to be accessible to everyone? Not make [it] just [for] the ones who are privileged to be able to travel or be able to enjoy visiting a museum?”
Intellectual property protection
With many artists sharing their work online, the question of intellectual property has been a heated topic of debate. Al Kaabi says the Ministry of Culture and Youth is working closely with its economic counterpart to develop IP protection and other policies to secure the original ideas of artists.
The minister also highlighted the importance of spreading awareness to artists about how they can protect their own artwork, which she hopes will encourage them to share their work more frequently.
“Nowadays it’s a sector that is very vibrant, and it’s a sector that is even ahead of other sectors that are contributing to the GDP,” says the minister.
When asked about how the creative industry collaborates with the economy, Al Kaabi cited the job of licenses for freelancers and microbusinesses which include filmmakers, editors, make-up artists, etc.
“The license is a business license, therefore it's a business environment,” Al Kaabi explained. “Therefore, there are job creations that are happening in that sector, yet having the right measurements for the sector and identifying the creative jobs that the sector will provide. There are the institutions and there are the thousands of media and creative agencies that are within the UAE that require us to look very closely and focus on the sector.”
Communicating cultures
A bird’s-eye view of Hagia Sophia
Last year, the UAE became o
[This Day] - Pledges to track killers of slain monarch
The mass of human-produced materials, such as concrete, steel and asphalt, has grown to equal the biomass of all life on the planet, according to a study from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Humans are adding new buildings, roads, vehicles and products at a rate that doubles every 20 years. This 'concrete jungle' is predicted to weigh more […]
The post The Mass of Manmade Stuff Now Equals the Planet’s Biomass first appeared on The Florida Star | The Georgia Star.
President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his national security team, declaring 'America is back', demonstrating the changed diplomatic tone his administration will take compared to Trump's.
… Representative Marcia L. Fudge, an African-American Democrat from Ohio; Heidi Heitkamp … with implausibly large margins in African-American areas.
“There’s no way …
Amnesty International USA said advocates of boycotts should be allowed to express their views freely without harassment, threats of prosecution or criminalization.
