Of Sand and Ocean
On the road to Black Africa. The only way from Maghreb to Guinea
Editorials about: Islam
Karnataka. The Key to India
The last Maharajas in the Silicon Valley
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 […]