Yemen’s Big Chew: In Defense of Khat In defense of spending one's days chewing the mildly narcotic khat leaf. Read More
Sauce in Exile: On the Yemenite Trail When Yemen’s Jews came to Israel in the massive airlift of ’49-’50, they brought something vital with them: z’hug chili sauce.
Viva Istanbul Time Magazine’s Pelin Turgut was there when the tear gas spread last night. Her report on the heartbreak and hope of the Gezi Park movement.
Of Taksim and Tantuni The (brief) standoff between a street-meat vendor and protestors in Taksim, Istanbul.
The Search for Sanaa’s Best Fahsa The meaty, brothy Yemeni stew is comfort food in times of peace and war
The Illusions of Aleppo In the brutalized city of Aleppo, magical realism is far preferable to actual reality of war.
A Day in Damascus John Wreford goes shopping for bread and cheese in the encroaching war zone that is Damascus, Syria
Egypt in Decay: Q&A with Xenia Nikolskaya A conversation with Xenia Nikolskaya on her portraits of Egypt’s decaying palaces