Josh Wood

Past the sand berm marking the border between northern Iraq and northeastern Syria, a small military outpost sits amid the oil derricks that dot the parched landscape of this country…

Things are changing in northeastern Syria’s Kurdish-majority Hassake province. Gradually, the swoops and curves of Arabic script on storefronts and street signs are being replaced with the Latin characters that…

It is five years to the month that the siege of Nahr El Bared began near Tripoli, and while the guns have gone silent, the potential for renewed conflict involving…

In Cairo these days, asking random people on the street about the shortcomings of the ruling military-led transitional government often elicits the same reactions that asking about former President Hosni…

Tahrir Square of late has come to resemble an Egyptian version of the famed Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park; the difference being, perhaps, that it is ringed with barricades…

In the immigration hall of Cairo International Airport above the booths where customs officers process travelers’ passports, visitors idling in the queues now see is a picture of a young…

  Salam Rayes is the chief executive officer of the Ashrafieh-based St. George Hospital, one of Beirut’s oldest healthcare institutions. Executive sat down with Rayes for a frank discussion on…

  Healthcare has long been a source of pride in Lebanon. Visitors from across the region come to its hospitals and clinics to go under the knife, be it for…

In Cairo’s Garbage City — as with many other places in Egypt — there is little optimism about the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections. “We don’t know anybody. We only…