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Aida Alami The writer is a Moroccan reporter who has been contributing to NYT since 2011 Before the tourists came to marvel at the valley cradled in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, with its arid red...

The writer is the Cairo bureau chief, covering politics, society and culture in MENA region For nearly three weeks now, more than 1,000 men, women and children from Africa have been clinging to...

Declan Walsh The writer is the Chief Africa correspondent at NYT Sprawled across a patch of desert four times the size of Washington, DC, a showy new capital is rising in Egypt, imperial in scale...

When Taha al Baskini won a part in a new play about soldiers who reunite after dying in combat, his costume was already in his closet. His onstage camouflage pants were the same ones he had worn as a...