Peter
Schwartzstein

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'

@pschwartzstein

Latest Stories

The Daily Beast 

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.

National Geographic 

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.

WIRED 

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…

Newsweek 

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…

Foreign Affairs 

Dec 8, 2016

The Making of Egypt's Presidents

Letter From Menoufia

TakePart 

Nov 3, 2016

The World's Sunniest Country Is Killing Its Solar Power Industry

With Egypt’s once promising renewable energy sector crippled, the government is turning to coal.

Smithsonian 

Oct 16, 2016

The Bizarre Tale Of the Middle East’s First Space Program

In Lebanon, reminders of what could have been still stand

Outside 

Oct 5, 2016

“ISIS Weather” Brings Battles and Bloodshed in Iraq

The terrorist group typically ramps up attacks during the country's stormy winter

Newsweek 

Sep 14, 2016

The Syrian Civil War Could Spell The End Of Antibiotics

Mohammed Abu Ara is the face of a grave new threat, but propped up on his bed in an airy segregated hospital ward in Jordan, there’s not a hint of menace about him. With his left arm cut off above…