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51.3%ANMag Issue 19 Global Awareness
Music Therapy
By Salwa Zahabi, Staff Writer
Beirut, Lebanon – Music therapy is the "clinical and evidence based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals with a therapeutic relationship by a qualified professional who has completed an approved music therapy program". In other words, music is used by a trained professional called a "music therapist" to achieve some therapeutic goals like social and interpersonal development, self-awareness, and spiritual enhancement. [More]
The Seven Wonders of the Modern World - Part II of II
By Ghassan Teffaha, Staff writer
Beirut, Lebanon – Part II – The past century has provided spectacular advances in design, engineering, and construction, which have allowed humanity to create an array of monumental structures. From these, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), with help from experts around the world, selected seven structures which constitute the list of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. [More]
Origin of Matter
By Ali Abu Bakar Sadeeq, Contributing Writer
Beirut, Lebanon – Kano, Nigeria - Matter! It is the all-prevailing material that made the physical universe… Where does it originally come from? It is the question that eluded all religions, philosophies and science, until Albert Einstein arrived. The leading religions of the world and even myths indicated the eternal nature of matter. The Holy Bible in the first few lines of Genesis talked about darkness from where light came. The Holy Quran says before the big bang, the universe was in a gaseous state (smoke). Even the postulation of Einstein's famous law (E=Mc2) only managed to solve the riddle of where matter might have originated. As matter and energy are interchangeable, it is quite safe to say matter originated in the first instance from energy. [More]