Category: Text
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UmweltBank Interview On How Renewable Energy Can Facilitate Democracy In The Arab World?
This Interview was published on the portal of the German UmweltBank (German for: The Bank of the Environment). This is a translation from German of that Interview. Enjoy, BH. Bashar Humeid is currently researching the question of how the expansion of renewable energy will affect the democratization of states at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He […]
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Analysis: Germany’s position on Israel’s annexation plan weakens its international role
In an analysis I wrote for the Palestinian magazine “Shu’un Filastiniyah”: Israel’s decision to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank comes at a critical time for Germany, as it stands on the threshold of an important test of its foreign policy, especially as it will take over the presidency of the Security Council as […]
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The Art Of The Freedom Machine
An inherently entrenched and overwhelming emotion overtakes you when you watch a seedling you have sowed, germinate and take life of its own. The plant grows and develops by itself, but it also gives birth and blossoms within ourselves liberty that was lost during our modern, ever more complex urban life. The “Freedom Machine” is […]
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The Next Energy/Media Revolution
One of the main inspirations for starting my research about renewable energy and its relation to democratization is an interview that I made with Jeremy Rifkin whom I met 2010 in Abu Dhabi (UAE). Inspired by his theory of the next renewables/internet revolution, I started the organization Meezan.cc in Amman in 2011 to design and […]