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Apr 18, 2017
IRAQ’S UNLIKELY LOVE AFFAIR WITH CUDDLY CANINES
It’s 9 o’clock on a chilly night in January, and the Adhamiyah animal market is teeming with visitors. There are the private zoo owners who’ve dropped by to size up the mangy lions and monkeys,…
Mar 21, 2017
Forget ISIS, Egypt's Population Boom Is Its Biggest Threat
Egypt's ballooning birth rate and severe food and water shortage could threaten its national security.
Feb 6, 2017
Iraq's Unique Wildlife Pushed to Brink by War, Hunting
After decades of strife, the world’s first civilization is losing many of its animals, such as otters, deer, songbirds, and more.
Jan 18, 2017
Iraq's Marsh Arabs test the waters as wetlands ruined by Saddam are reborn
In the country’s southern marshes, the government is helping families to rebuild their floating communities, 25 years after the land was drained
Jan 2, 2017
The Explosive Secrets of Egypt’s Desert
When foreign troops packed up and left the Sahara after World War II, they left behind a diabolical maze of landmines.
Dec 21, 2016
Battered By Climate Change, Nile Farmers Forge New Course
Egypt's farmers are going back to school to learn how to adapt to a drying land.
Dec 16, 2016
Civil War Turns Syria’s Doctors Into Masters of Improvisation
BASIL AL-REABI WAS riding home from school in southern Syria, in the fall of 2014, when a roadside bomb struck. The eight-year-old watched as shrapnel shredded his classmates and reduced them to a collection…
Dec 15, 2016
Why Donald Trump and Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi's Romance Might not Last in Egypt
The life-size cutout of Hillary Clinton looked lonely. On November 8, at the U.S. Embassy’s presidential election night bash in Cairo, dozens of young Egyptians gathered in a cavernous hotel ballroom…