Morocco’s quake zone now fears for its livelihood, too
Aida AlamiThe writer is a Moroccan reporter who has been contributing to NYT since 2011Before the tourists came to marvel at the valley cradled in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, with its arid red slopes...
Stranded in a strange land, and waiting for death
The writer is the Cairo bureau chief, covering politics, society and culture in MENA regionFor nearly three weeks now, more than 1,000 men, women and children from Africa have been clinging to...
A new capital worthy of the Pharaohs rises in Egypt, but at what price?
Declan Walsh The writer is the Chief Africa correspondent at NYTSprawled across a patch of desert four times the size of Washington, DC, a showy new capital is rising in Egypt, imperial in scale and...
Fed up Libyans clamour for peace, from onstage to burger joints
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...