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 …

  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 …

  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 …

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 …