Middle East - Kuwait Soul
A nation balanced between materialism and Islam
Editorials about: desert
Africa - Western Sahara
The forgotten people and a never-ending dispute
Botswana - Metalheads of the Kalahari
Follow the metal to discover where wild things are
United States - No One Will Trespass
Paramilitary volunteers patrolling the Us border
China - Coal. The Black Legacy
Tales of pollution and human resistance where the sun is darkened
Afghanistan - Army in Afghanistan
A peace effort in a never-ending war
Brazil - 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, […]
Saudi Arabia - 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 […]