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
The Handover: A drawn-out drawdown of US troops
It's already the longest war in American history, and the end is nowhere in sight. Though President Obama...
Jan 04, 2016
Corking climate change: sustainable practices bear fruit in champagne production
By Melody Schrieber and Manon Verchot As revelers around the world ring in the new year with glasses...
Jan 01, 2016
The Forgotten War in Afghanistan: And how the US military tries to keep it that way
One year ago, the United States and allied forces in Afghanistan ceremonially lowered the flag at military headquarters...
Dec 31, 2015
Can Afghanistan Be Saved?
By Jean MacKenzie KABUL -- Even for Afghanistan, a country where bad news is more the rule than...
Dec 29, 2015
