a relatively hot day in the fall of 2017, that day in the small town of zegora in southern morock. morocco could have ended in

peace quietly like any other day, but that day wasn't like the other days in the desert in morocco, people in the desert region had gathered from different areas for something important in zigura. at a first glance, you'd think that they were protesting against planting. watermelon in that region and exporting it to other countries. mean it was just a small protest for better working and living conditions, but after a short while 23 of the protesters who were there in small numbers were arrested in a police raid and the others quickly scattered. apparently the

protests were over, but the livelihood of the people in that region was dependent on buying bottles of water, because the water in the wells had dried up, so they couldn't drink water and do agriculture. exporting watermelon to europe would further reduce the level of underground water resources in that region, so they couldn't. stand to watch it, in no time, the protests became more complicated. morocco is about 710,000 square kilometers located in the western sahara in north africa. robot. is the capital

city and casablanca is the largest city. of since its establishment in 780 b.c., morocco has seen many monarchs and rulers, from the portuguese occupation of a swath of the land in the 15th century to resistance against the ottoman occupation and becoming the only country in north africa that refused to be under the domination of the ottoman empire. from 1980 to mid-2010, morocco used over 70% of non-renewable water resources for agriculture. the statistics showed that it will fall below the abdict drout line until the mid 2020s. but why would officials opt for products that require a lot of water while they're aware. that the country is

located in a desert and providing water has always been a major challenge, but the condition to protect this stability was to continue extracting water in large volumes and keep parching the land, insisting on keeping the status quo would shout out the future of the country and foreign investment in ambiguity. on the one hand, the country's stability was at risk, and on the other hand, the government would blame the drought for everything. it wouldn't admit that its decisions were influenced by the structure and plans in. inherited from the colonial era. syria's underground water resources were drained during those years. although syria has gone through different spells of drought throughout history, rising temperatures of the earth has uncidentedly escalated the

impacts of the drought in recent years. about 70% of the cattle in the region have perished. in 2010, wheat production. in syria was reduced by 18% and 3 million residents of northeastern syria are food insecure amit the famin. farmers in syria abandoned their farms amid lack of water and left for major cities to work as construction workers and laborers in any other fields. cities like hama' and homes were surrounded by densely populated slums that house migrants from agricultural and rural areas, those days when no one would predict that donald trump would find his way to the white house, in reaction to omali, he said that the candidates who feel like their popularity is diminishing, do everything they

can to turn heads, like martin omali, who links the emergence of daesh to climate change, even though trump, won the election and did and said bizarre things in his tenure, the reality can't be withheld forever. now, besides somali, many other people know that, one of the precursors for the emergence of daesh in syria was the widespread drout that affected all of the regions in the country and caused exodus of farmers to cities. actually, the climate change issue started in iraq intensively. 2006 and 2007 uh when drow and global warming affected lot, especially west part of iraq, mainly in naino and ambar, many, many families, thousands of families, they become jobles after the drop, no agriculture, their

animal died, thousands of youth, they become jobless, and this was the critical point that those terrorist groups, including al-qaida and later on isis recruted the... those youth really easily, because they had other options. climate change led to abdict poverty in syria, which in turn led to creation of daesh and other extremist groups. omali didn't say that fundamentalism in syria was born out of drought, but he stressed that climate change was one of the reasons behind the weakening of the central government in syria and the declining. emergence at the heart of west asia was the turning point for unrest and riots that was directly linked to

the water crisis, but scientific observations warn of the beginning of a crisis. west asia is more pro. than anywhere else in the world to climate change effects. the continuation the crisis will lead to the rise in sea levels and flash floods in the low-lying deltas in egypt, when the salty water of the mediterranean runs into the nile river, it will make the fertile soil near the nile a red. the most populated areas and the agriculture hobby in egypt will be exposed to the danger. in the next few decades, cities like alexandria and damietta in egypt will witness devastating sandstorms. the situation in yemen is even more worrying. besides the saudi lid war and siege, santa's water

resources are fast being depleted. in a short period, maybe within a year or two, yemen's cattle will be born dry. drout and water scarcity has damaged agriculture in other parts of yemen as well, and has caused widespread death of the cattle. and hunger has created a miserable situation. in the last three months of 2020, millions of people in yemen were living in severe insecurity. with reemergence of drought in the beginning of 2021, the number of yeamenis who were exposed to hunger and famin skyrocketed. في دخول المعونات اللي هي التغذيه الخاصه بالاطفال في سوء التغذيه والتغذيه المعيشيه الخاصيه للام

لكي ترضعها how many children in this in this town are mal nourished as a result of the war? the figures become even scarier when we know that over 57% of people in yemen do not have sufficient food to remain a alive and healthy, about 50,000 people might succum to hunger, if yemen survive ariel and seas blocade and are lucky enough to dudge the daily saudi bummings, they grapple with the monsters of drought and hunger. the developments in west asia during the past 60 years show a direct correlation between

violence and drought. the hot pots of violence during the past decades were exactly the places that were hit by drought. now many advocate the hypothesis that widespread violence in countries like syria, iraq, afghanistan and pakistan, to a large extent stem from climate change, the violence on the one hand is due to the concentration of fossil fuels in the region, and on the other hand, is caused by burning the fossil fuel. ayell wiseman in his latest book, refers to a phenomenon called amazing symmetry, which indicates how and oil have caused chaos in west asia, white man argues when we we see the map of the areas targeted by western drones in the region, we realize that many of

those areas from south wazirissan to north of yemen, somalia, iraq, gaza and libya, are directly on or near a line with low precipitation. about 15 years ago, it was mentioned in a report by the us army that the future of west. asia has always been tied to two natural resources: oil due to its abundance and water due to its scarcity. during those years, fighter jets would fly over oil rich areas and now drones hover over the dry regions that suffer from lack of water. bombs are after oil and drones are in search of drought. drought and violence. interwoven, and if we add oil to the equation, the result would be the crisis west

asian nations have been dealing with in recent years. the relation between drought and violence isn't limited to west asia, in a joint study by berkley and princeton universities in 2013. 13 about the link between violence and hot weather in certain parts of australia, india, the us, tanzania and racial ethnic groups in europe and south asia proved that two degree increase in temperature can increase the likelihood of clashes between groups and civil wars by 50%. drought in west asia has not only led to unrest and terrorism, but has provided an excuse for occupation. the israeli regime hit

its nation-building project behind the mask of environmental activities and preventing the occupied palestinian territories from becoming aerid land for a long time. the so-called return to homeland was one of the key elements of the zist leaders ideology. trees were one of their weapons to confiscate pales. and oil trees were approved to pave the way for the accommodation of new jewish migrants in new houses on the... on other hand, designs plant pine trees and eucalyptus on palestinian fruit dins. the national jewish funt, whose motto was to make the desert screen claimed that it has planted 250

million trees since 1901. many of the trees were not indigenous to the region. in its promotional items, the national jewish fund introduces itself as an environmental ngo that is active in managing water resources and reviving green areas, but they are the largest private land owners in the occupied territories, and they still refuse to sell or lease the plots of land to non-jews. the occupation of palestine isn't the only experience of this. kind of colonization. north and south americas have also gone through painful days of witnessing the transformation of their beautiful nature to protected parks and expelling the indigenous population. the events have questioned the

environmental movements credibility and have made tackling climate change through raising. public awareness danting task for the movements. the truth of the matter is, west asia is more exposed to the risks emating from drout more than anywhere else in the world. conflicts and the crises caused by drought are not confined to the borders of countries anymore. the government of turkish president rejay erdogan in turkey took advantage of the crisis in syria and iraq and constructed eight dams on the rivers splintering of tigris and 14 dams on the branches of the euphrates which will reduce the water share of the downstream countries, but the consequences of the move will not only be felt by the two war striken

countries. it's a source of concern for other countries like jordan and iran as well. iran has a dispute with afghanistan over its water share coming from hirmand that runs all the way to hammoon lagoon. if iran doesn't come up with solution for the hamomun lagoon, the sand storm in siestan and baluchestan will soon move onto afghanistan without recognizing the iran-afghanistan border and it will boomerang in afghanistan. further field in north africa, construction of the largest african dam in ethiopia has made drought in egypt and sudan more severe. the deadlock in negotiations has put them on the verge of a war. filling the dam in ethiopia

will reduce egypt's share of nile by 50% and will turn two-thirds. the land in egypt to desert. no matter who wins in the rivalry between governments for water resources, it's a temporary situation that won't last long. if we don't harness greenhouse gas emissions, the limited water resources won't last long. this is the story of vast land westerners called the middle east, a land with beautiful cities that was once called the bride of the world and the heart of the planet, but according to predictions, a large part of it might become so hot and dry that would become

unlivable for humans. the cities are competing with each other for the day that water ends for their superficial understanding of environmental issues.

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my name is mohammad chaudhari, i was born in karachi, i was raised in a family of five children, so i started my... education at the age of about four or three and a half, my mother was deeply religious, she used to explain that in the holy book, there are so many verses of universe and creation of humanity and creation of universe, and that our religion teachers to be more proactively looking into the truth, so we were pondering about different phenomenas, we used to see galaxies, we used to look into different animals, you know that... was extremely important factor in my intellectual development and then in my secondary school i have had the opportunity of benefiting from

some very good teachers, so our laboraties for chemistry and physics and biology were as good as anywhere else in the world, then i moved to university and university was again a have access to some very good tears, initially i got admission in university of arizona, but then i decided to remain in pakistan. because i met professor is my mentor, professor aata has give me sense of direction, he gave me the depth of thinking, i travel to pennsylvania state university, which is which is very high quality institution, i completed my ph.d and then got the opportunity of my post talk in cornal university, and i work in frontiers of science and technology, so i was working on the structural chemistry, using all the modern tools of organic chemistry such as project is all about using nature's diversity and nature's diversity there are lots of

chemical diversity, so everything natural you pick and you would identify lots of fascinating molecules, these molecules are capable of locking disease mechanism and what we have done in last three decades is to actually use profound knowledge. of chemistry and biological sciences to identify molecules which are present nature as drug like molecules, some of them were active as antibacterial, some of them are active as antiviral, some of them are active against the epilepsy, some of them are active against cancer, and project has been extremely success successful because since last three decades, we have been looking into various kinds of chemical. from different sources, from marine organisms, from from medicinal plants, from fungi and bacteria and isolated this fascinating array of complex structure.

i used to read lot, i used to read about medieval muslim scientists who laid the foundation of modern science as it is today, and i used to read about albaruni, al khazimi, ibn rush and other from seventh century, 12th century, muslim world let the entire humanity in terms of science and technology, there were many scientists from west asia who contributed in the development of science. technology is a time for us to go back, understand the fundamentals of what's required to be done, and this is the reason why initiative such as mustapha science and technology prize has pivotal role in encouraging people to move, go back to the science and technology and start contributing towards the betterment of humanity by innovation and by by research.

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takeover of power in the afternoon. country and the biggest us automobile workers union calls on 7,000 more members to join a historic strike over the contract dispute with manufacturers.