Five years after the fall of a dictator, Egypt faces echoes of the past CAIRO — The Egyptian bazaar known...
Feb 12, 2016
Meet 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, 2016
Syrian 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, 2016
Refugee 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, 2016
The 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, 2016
Reporter’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, 2016
Five 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, 2016
To 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, 2016
The 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, 2016
The Girls’ Schools: What will tomorrow bring?
Before US troops arrived in Afghanistan in 2001, the harsh rule of the Taliban forbade girls' education. Today...
Jan 04, 2016
