YOUNG
A new Omani generation
Editorials about: desert
Metalheads of the Kalahari
Follow the metal to discover where wild things are
No One Will Trespass
Paramilitary volunteers patrolling the Us border
Coal. The Black Legacy
Tales of pollution and human resistance where the sun is darkened
Army in Afghanistan
A peace effort in a never-ending war
The Forgotten Sertão
It’s the other Brazil, the anti-Amazon, the poorest and most arid region in Latin America. The Sertão, the Brazilian outback, is twice the size of England: part sea, part desert and part steppe, where life is hard and poverty is rife in the streets. Half of South America’s poorest inhabitants live here, in the Sertão, […]
Forgetting Chad
After years of civil wars, the most neglected French colony in Africa is seeking a way to start again. It’s not easy: Chad suffers infantile malnutrition, it is stricken by drought and desertification and it is invaded by hundreds of thousands refugees from Central Africa and Sudan. The international community which is always focusing on […]
Bye Bye Petroleum
What will the Saudi Arabia of the future be like? The reformist and open-minded Arabia of King Abdullah, sovereign for the past four years, or the austere and conservative Arabia of the Muslim Ulema? I tried to imagine it, travelling from the capital,Riyadh, to the desert of the Nabataeans in the north, and down again […]
Egyptian Western Desert
In the desert of lost whales