Enviro journalist & researcher, think tanker @ The Wilson Center & @ Center for Climate & Security, Author of 'The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence'
Mar 7, 2015
A year after its destruction, Cairo's Museum of Islamic Art is still a blown-out shell
Feb 19, 2015
Corruption and war threaten the site where biblical prophet Nahum is said to rest.
Jan 19, 2015
AMUDA, SYRIA—Even in territory it doesn’t control, the Islamic State group, or ISIL, is making an awful nuisance of itself.
Not content with cutting a swath of terror through tracts of Syria…
Jan 19, 2015
The Arab Spring revitalised Egypt’s cultural scene. But now everyone is weary, broke and scared.
Jan 6, 2015
Syrian Kurds are superb hosts. Between the frequent offers of steaming, overly sugared tea, to the feasts cobbled together at short notice, most will stop at nothing to smooth the stay of foreign guests.…
Jan 5, 2015
Refugees from the violence in Syria and Iraq are hunkered down in camps and half-finished buildings in hilly, windswept terrain.
Dec 25, 2014
Divided and drained by war, Syrian Christians are determined to celebrate for the first time in four years.
Dec 23, 2014
As oil prices fall, so do Kurdish hopes for an independent state in northern Iraq.
Dec 19, 2014
Land mines keep people out of the Persian leopard's last habitats, creating a conundrum—removing the hazards leaves the cats more vulnerable.