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Food Is the Ultimate Power: Parched Countries Tap the Nile River Through Farms
Food Is the Ultimate Power Parched Countries Tap the Nile River Through Farms ngg src=”galleries” ids=”72″ display=”basicthumbnail” thumbnailcrop=”0″ nggproofingdisplay=”0″ Oil-rich Gulf states...
In remembrance of Dr Frank Weirsma
DR Frank Weirsma was my professor at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at the University of Arizona (U of A) in 1976. He taught Agricultural Engineering. It is very sad to learn t...
Treading a Tightrope: How Best to Balance and Advance the Multifaceted Arab-U.S. Relationship?
Dr. Turki Faisal Al Rasheed speaks at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations The 28 th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference hosted by the National Council on US-Arab Relations (NCUSAR)...
Visit to West Bekaa Valley, Lebanon 23 September, 2019
Dr. Turki Faisal Al Rasheed, advisor to the Environment and Sustainable Development Unit (ESDU) at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences (FAFS) at the University of Beirut (AUB), recently unde...
Dr. Turki Alrasheed as a new Advisor to American University of Beirut (AUB)
Dr. Turki Faisal Al Rasheed has been appointed as Advisor to the Environment and Sustainable Development Unit (ESDU ) at the Faculty of Agricultural an Food Sciences (FAFS) the American University...
Saudi Arabia’s Strategic Transformation Towards Sustainable Development
Saudi Arabia’s Strategic Transformation Towards Sustainable Development Turki Faisal Al Rasheed In the last decade, governments in the Arab world have been inundated by crises: the food crisis in 20...
Sustainable Challenges Saudi Vision 2030 & Solutions
Dr.Al Rasheed participated in the NCUSAR 27th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference. Dr. Turki Faisal Al Rasheed was a featured specialist at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations (NCUSAR) 2...
Managing Water Scarcity in River Basins: Innovation and Sustainable Development A GlobAqua
Dr. Turki Al Rasheed has recently returned from a conference in Morocco which brought together practitioners and scientists in the water sector to exchange ideas and information and raise awareness ab...
Al Rasheed lecture at the American University of Beirut about rural development
A special lecture was held at the American University of Beirut on 23 April 2018 highlighting the importance of Food Security issues in the Middle East. The title of the lecture is “ Food Security in...
Saudis ‘Back to the Farm’?
Saudis ‘Back to the Farm’? An interesting article in Arab News, though I think the expert being quoted is off-target on several points. Turki Al-Rasheed notes that water is a problem, but he says th...