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The dinosaur hunter: TED Fellow Nizar Ibrahim searches for lost worlds

The dinosaur hunter: TED Fellow Nizar Ibrahim searches for lost worlds

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Like many kids, German-Moroccan paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim nursed a fascination for dinosaurs from a young age. The difference is, he grew up and actually found one. Ibrahim vividly remembers learning about Spinosaurus, a massive aquatic dinosaur whose only known bones were destroyed during World War II. As a kid, Ibrahim dreamed of finding new fossils of []

A jewel of the city: Aziza Chaouni on restoring the Fez River

A jewel of the city: Aziza Chaouni on restoring the Fez River

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The Fez River winds through the city’s medina — Fez’s historic medieval center and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Heavily contaminated, almost an open sewer, it was covered over with concrete to contain the smell; it was all but forgotten in recent decades. For much of the past 20 years, architect and engineer Aziza Chaouni has been battling to restore it. []