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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…
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.
Oct 16, 2016
The Bizarre Tale Of the Middle East’s First Space Program
In Lebanon, reminders of what could have been still stand
Oct 5, 2016
“ISIS Weather” Brings Battles and Bloodshed in Iraq
The terrorist group typically ramps up attacks during the country's stormy winter