Five years after the fall of a dictator, Egypt faces echoes of the past CAIRO — The Egyptian bazaar known...
Feb 12, 2016Meet Zakia and Ali, Afghanistan’s Romeo and Juliet
They are human beings, and as poor and unlucky and ill-educated as they might be, they have just...
Feb 12, 2016Syrian Refugees of Jordan’s and Lebanon’s Camps
Jordan Ahamd Caher, 15, a Syrian refugee from Golan Heights, sits on a bed in his family’s caravan...
Feb 05, 2016Refugee crisis in Jordan reaches a ‘boiling point’
AMMAN, Jordan — The refugee camps layered across the hillsides here look like an archaeological excavation, revealing the sediment...
Feb 02, 2016The Fifth Anniversary of Egypt’s Uprising
CAIRO – The uprising that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 radically shifted the tides of politics in...
Jan 28, 2016Reporter’s Notebook: Tahrir Square, Five Years Later
CAIRO – Where Egyptian demonstrators locked arms five years ago in the iconic protests of Tahrir Square, there was...
Jan 25, 2016Five Years Later: Egypt’s Revolution Devours Its Children
CAIRO—It takes about 30 minutes to drive from the teeming Cairo neighborhood of Faisal to what locals call...
Jan 24, 2016To Jordan’s Bedouins, MERS is ‘only a story’
On the first day of a three-day summer reporting trip in Jordan’s southern Wadi Rum desert, Bedouin herder...
Jan 13, 2016The Millennials: A generation of war looks to the future
The first millennials were born in 1980, the same year the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. This generation of Afghans...
Jan 04, 2016The Girls’ Schools: What will tomorrow bring?
Before US troops arrived in Afghanistan in 2001, the harsh rule of the Taliban forbade girls' education. Today...
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