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Feb 26, 2016
If Climate Change Doesn’t Sink Alexandria, Egypt’s Official Incompetence Will
It's not alone among World Heritage Sites facing encroaching seas.
Jan 31, 2016
The climate-change refugee crisis is only just beginning
The Amhara Plateau is no one’s idea of a gloomy landscape. Rich fields blossom as far as the eye can see; bountiful rivers zigzag through the region’s rolling hills. It isn’t hard to see why local…
Jan 8, 2016
Farming the Sahara
Its population soaring, Egypt is facing a food-supply crisis. Can the government make a desert bloom?
Dec 27, 2015
US diplomacy shackled by security concerns
How forceful embassy security contributes to Washington’s helter-skelter policy in the Middle East.
Dec 11, 2015
The 21st-century gold rush where people work in 19th-century conditions
It’s a little before 7am on a bright, airless August morning, and already Abdullah Idriss Isaac has been hard at work for hours.
Swishing his aluminum pan back and forth through a waist-deep…
Nov 27, 2015
Egyptian Camel Traders and Butchers Are Facing Tough Times
For over a week now, Ahmed Awni has struggled to offload any of the “prime” cuts of camel haunch that dangle on bloodied hooks outside his Cairo butcher’s stall. He’s tried a few gimmicks—“Buy…
Nov 12, 2015
Possible Chambers in Pyramid Hold Hopes for Egypt's Tourism
Desperate to win back tourists, Egypt has ramped up efforts to solve the mysteries of the Great Pyramids of Giza.
Aug 31, 2015
Sudan’s Vaccination Card Black Market
In Sudan, a yellow fever vaccine costs $25. But for $8, you can get a phony certificate that says you’ve been vaccinated.
Aug 22, 2015
This small Turkish town grows a quarter of the world’s hazelnuts
ORDU, TURKEY—To lovers of hazelnuts, this small city on the Black Sea coast in far eastern Anatolia is nothing short of a garden of earthly delights.
Residents dispatch young children to schools…