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 Not long time ago “The Sinai Weekly” has received a letter from a resident asking where all the garbage in Sharm goes to. We decided to give this topic a more thorough coverage rather than trying to answer the question in “Letters to the editor” column due to its growing importance: the growing population of Sharm and its popularity among tourists resulted in huge amounts of generated litter. Where does it go, how does it processed and how can we help? These are the questions we are going to answer in this article.
You may not know it but all the garbage goes straight away to the desert behind ‘Ruwaisat’ area, where Bedouin girls and women sort it by hand, separating out recyclable organic waste, metal, paper, plastic, glass as well as hazardous waste. Apparently, organic waste, oftentimes termed as ‘wet garbage’ is the easiest to recycle, as it includes fruit and vegetables, meat and fish, eggshells and dairy products, snack foods, coffee grounds, etc. All this food waste is fed to domestic animals, thus causing no harm to the environment. |
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 At times when doctors shake their heads over the causes of some “incurable disease”, the only reasonable explanation which may come to mind is: “was it an evil eye?!” For the skeptics – an evil eye is a phenomenon which has been known for years. The amount of literary and archaeological evidence attests to the belief in the evil eye in the eastern Mediterranean for more than a millennium starting with Hesiod, Callimachus, Plato, Diodorus Siculus, Theocritus, Plutarch and many others.
Caused by envy in most cases, the evil eye may lead to the following affects: some cultures report afflictions with bad luck; others believe the evil eye can cause disease, wasting away, and even death. In most cultures, the primary victims are thought to be babies and young children, because they are so often praised and commented upon by strangers or by childless women. But those of you who think that only some certain people can have an evil eye are wrong. Here comes a surprise: we all have this “talent” to cast an evil eye, but the point is that we do it unintentionally. This statement is justified by the Old English word: “overlooking”, implying that the gaze has remained focused on the coveted object, person, or animal for too long, thus resulting in his/her misfortune or a disease. Attempts to ward off the curse of the evil eye have resulted in a number of talismans in many cultures. As a class, they are called "apotropaic" (Greek for "prophylactic" or "protective", literally: "turns away") talismans, meaning that they turn away or turn back harm. |
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