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LeMonde
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- LeMonde
Mohamed El Khatib, playwright: 'When Arabic rings out, a sinister music accompanies it. That of contempt.'
My father did not come to see my retrospective at the Grand Palais [which was held at the Paris museum from June 13 to 29]. In fact, he never visits any museums. One day, he told me, "Why do you want me to look at museums, when they don't look at me?" Fundamentally, he is right, and I would be wrong to confine him to an immigration history museum. I remember that one day, he, who speaks French only haltingly, said something surprising to me: "Why do we say mother tongue, and not father tongue?" I didn't know what to say in response. He does not know much about my work. One day, the book I wrote about my mother's death, Finir en beauté [ A Beautiful Ending ], arrived at home, and when he saw the dedication, "To Yamna," he closed the book and said: "Anyway, everything is about your mother in this house." He was not wrong. Yet, when I think of our old Renault 12, it is him I think of. The car, the only thing he owned, that was him. In the car, he felt like he was someone, and that he had regained a bit of the dignity that was taken from him when he arrived in France in the 1970s. Then, tirelessly, every summer, we would hit the road and go back to the bled ["homeland," in North-African Arabic]. It was a powerful ritual, one of the rare moments when we felt we were living in a collective adventure. Some people saw us as hordes of barbarians crowding the length and breadth of the highways, while we felt free and happy, and that was priceless. Ultimately, those cars were, for decades, the link between the Mediterranean's two coasts, between two cultures, two languages. My father is now over 70 years old. His generation will disappear, and all that will remain of it are those cars, whose chassis constitute a moving industrial heritage. The second most spoken language in France I will inherit his Renault 12 and a few smatterings of Arabic. I am a bit ashamed of not knowing how to speak it, just as I was a bit ashamed when my father used to speak to us in Arabic in public. Who knows why, in playgrounds, when you hear parents speaking English or German to their children, it is seen as refined. Yet, when Arabic rings out, an entirely different, sinister music accompanies it: That of contempt for our language, and for those who are its bearers, we Arabs.
Zawya
12-06-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Oman a prime location for e-ammonia production: Yamna
MUSCAT: The Sultanate of Oman's potential to become a regional powerhouse in e-ammonia production has been reaffirmed by a top executive at Yamna, a clean energy investment firm collaborating with major international players to develop a gigawatt-scale green hydrogen project in Dhofar Governorate. Abdelaziz Yatribi, CEO of UK-based Yamna, stated in a recent interview that Oman's natural, infrastructural, geostrategic, and regulatory advantages make it an ideal destination for e-ammonia investment. 'Oman offers exceptional solar and wind resources, resulting in one of the lowest levelised costs of electricity (LCOE) – a critical factor in green hydrogen and ammonia production. Additionally, the Omani government's proactive approach, particularly through Hydrogen Oman (Hydrom), provides a supportive framework for green hydrogen and its derivative projects,' Yatribi said in an interview featured in an in-house report of Eiffel Investment Group, a leading European third-party asset manager. Last year, Yamna, along with consortium partners EDF Group and J-POWER, was awarded a 341 km² land block in Dhofar Governorate to develop, build, own, and operate a large-scale green ammonia project with an annual production capacity of 1 million tonnes. The project will integrate approximately 4.5 GW of renewable energy capacity and a 2.5 GW electrolyser, supplying hydrogen to an ammonia plant to be established in the Salalah Free Zone. Yamna's strategy, according to Yatribi, centres on producing the world's most cost-competitive green molecules – hydrogen and ammonia – in locations where renewable resources are both abundant and economical. 'Ammonia serves as an efficient carrier for hydrogen, facilitating its transport to global markets. It is a well-established commodity with over a century of production and transportation history, which significantly reduces technology and infrastructure risks. By leveraging existing ammonia infrastructure, we can accelerate the global deployment of green hydrogen solutions, particularly in markets with decarbonisation imperatives and limited domestic access to competitively priced green molecules,' he explained. Traditionally used in fertilizer production and industrial processes, the demand for e-ammonia is expected to grow substantially over the next 5 to 10 years, Yatribi noted. This growth will also be driven by its emerging role as a hydrogen carrier and low-carbon maritime fuel. In countries like Japan and South Korea, government-backed initiatives support the use of e-ammonia in power generation and industrial applications. Likewise, increasing interest in ammonia as a marine fuel is prompting the development of stringent safety protocols, supported by successful bunkering trials and forthcoming guidelines from the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), he added. Yatribi also emphasised Yamna's commitment to delivering a global portfolio of export-oriented e-ammonia projects, currently planned in Brazil, India, Morocco, and Oman. 'We envision e-ammonia playing a central role in the global energy transition. Beyond replacing fossil-based ammonia in traditional uses, e-ammonia will serve as a key enabler for decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors, including power generation and maritime shipping,' he said, adding: 'With continued technological innovation and supportive policies, we believe e-ammonia will become a cornerstone of a sustainable, low-carbon future.'
Observer
11-06-2025
- Business
- Observer
Oman a prime location for e-ammonia production: Yamna
MUSCAT: The Sultanate of Oman's potential to become a regional powerhouse in e-ammonia production has been reaffirmed by a top executive at Yamna, a clean energy investment firm collaborating with major international players to develop a gigawatt-scale green hydrogen project in Dhofar Governorate. Abdelaziz Yatribi, CEO of UK-based Yamna, stated in a recent interview that Oman's natural, infrastructural, geostrategic, and regulatory advantages make it an ideal destination for e-ammonia investment. 'Oman offers exceptional solar and wind resources, resulting in one of the lowest levelised costs of electricity (LCOE) – a critical factor in green hydrogen and ammonia production. Additionally, the Omani government's proactive approach, particularly through Hydrogen Oman (Hydrom), provides a supportive framework for green hydrogen and its derivative projects,' Yatribi said in an interview featured in an in-house report of Eiffel Investment Group, a leading European third-party asset manager. Last year, Yamna, along with consortium partners EDF Group and J-POWER, was awarded a 341 km² land block in Dhofar Governorate to develop, build, own, and operate a large-scale green ammonia project with an annual production capacity of 1 million tonnes. The project will integrate approximately 4.5 GW of renewable energy capacity and a 2.5 GW electrolyser, supplying hydrogen to an ammonia plant to be established in the Salalah Free Zone. Yamna's strategy, according to Yatribi, centres on producing the world's most cost-competitive green molecules – hydrogen and ammonia – in locations where renewable resources are both abundant and economical. 'Ammonia serves as an efficient carrier for hydrogen, facilitating its transport to global markets. It is a well-established commodity with over a century of production and transportation history, which significantly reduces technology and infrastructure risks. By leveraging existing ammonia infrastructure, we can accelerate the global deployment of green hydrogen solutions, particularly in markets with decarbonisation imperatives and limited domestic access to competitively priced green molecules,' he explained. Traditionally used in fertilizer production and industrial processes, the demand for e-ammonia is expected to grow substantially over the next 5 to 10 years, Yatribi noted. This growth will also be driven by its emerging role as a hydrogen carrier and low-carbon maritime fuel. In countries like Japan and South Korea, government-backed initiatives support the use of e-ammonia in power generation and industrial applications. Likewise, increasing interest in ammonia as a marine fuel is prompting the development of stringent safety protocols, supported by successful bunkering trials and forthcoming guidelines from the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), he added. Yatribi also emphasised Yamna's commitment to delivering a global portfolio of export-oriented e-ammonia projects, currently planned in Brazil, India, Morocco, and Oman. 'We envision e-ammonia playing a central role in the global energy transition. Beyond replacing fossil-based ammonia in traditional uses, e-ammonia will serve as a key enabler for decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors, including power generation and maritime shipping,' he said, adding: 'With continued technological innovation and supportive policies, we believe e-ammonia will become a cornerstone of a sustainable, low-carbon future.'
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Scientists Just Discovered Where One of Europe's Oldest Ancestors Came From
The Yamna people of what is now Ukraine are one of three groups all modern Europeans can trace their ancestry to. It is thought that Indo-European languages, including English, originated with the Yamna, who then spread those languages throughout Europe as they travelled. Why the Yamna were so successful is still uncertain, but besides genetic mixing, it could be attributed to them being fierce warriors and conquerors. Over 5,300 years ago, ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to spread across Europe and become one of three main groups from which all modern Europeans are decended. But who are the Yamna themselves descended from? This is the question Iosif Lazaridis, an evolutionary biologist from Harvard University, and his research team have been trying to answer for a decade. They dug through ancient DNA from the remains of 435 individuals (mostly foragers and hunter-gatherers), who lived in parts of the The North Pontic Region—specifically, the Caucasus region and near the Volga and Dnipro rivers—as far back as 8,400 years ago. From these peoples came the Serednii Stih—nomads who spread during the Early Bronze Age and would eventually give rise to the Yamna. '[Yamna] ancestry suggests that they emerged […] as a descendant community of people of the Serednii Stih culture,' the researchers wrote in a study recently published in Nature. The individual who is now thought to be the ancestor of all Yamna people was found in the Bronze Age archeological site of Mykhailivka in Ukraine. Having lived 5,300 to 5,700 years ago, this is the oldest individual found to be genetically Yamna, and it is in this region that Lazaridis and his team think the genetic intermixing that eventually brought about the Yamna may have happened. The North Pontic Region is also thought to be where Indo-European languages—a group of languages endemic to most of Europe and reach as far east as northwest Iran—came from. As the Yamna spread throughout Europe, they expanded to both the east and west, bringing ancestral forms of these languages with them. The Yamna linguistic takeover could explain many similarities between what seem to be unrelated languages. For example, earlier research from Harvard University points out that 'brother' in English is 'frater' in Latin—and 'brather' in Sanskrit. Why the Yamna expansion was so successful is still something of a mystery. They were not an insular group, so they intermarried with other cultures they encountered. Lazaridis thinks that this incorporation of cultures into their own, as well as their mastery of carts pulled by oxen and horses, at least partially explain how the Yamna managed to spread throughout such a vast region. But there are other theories. Another view of the Yamna puts them on the battlefield as relentless warriors and conquerors, which means there might be a macabre reason that their genes almost completely replaced those of local populations. Some of the peoples they conquered might have been totally wiped out. Another thing the Yamna brought with them was cannabis. They are thought to have introduced it to Europe and the Middle East, and residue found in burial sites throughout Eurasia confirms that they did use the plant—though whether they smoked it or only used hemp for rope is unclear. The Scythians, one of their descendent groups, were found to have used braziers to burn marijuana so that they could inhale its vapors. The Yamna were named for their distinctive burial pits, in which the dead were covered in red ochre before they were buried. Much about their customs and rituals still remains unknown, but as more is unearthed, archaeologists will keep adding flesh and bone to the ghosts of Europe's ancient past. '[Our findings show] a continuous process of transformation and change that not only shaped its modern inheritors,' Lazaridis said in an adjacent study, also published in Nature, 'but also played a central role in shaping events across the wider Eurasian continent.' You Might Also Like The Do's and Don'ts of Using Painter's Tape The Best Portable BBQ Grills for Cooking Anywhere Can a Smart Watch Prolong Your Life?
