Jordan's beautiful, cursed landscape Suzuki Kaku/Alamy The Black Desert offers visitors millions of years of natural and human history – but this may all change with plans to build a new capital city on the desert's edge. The New City Project aims to create a second capital on the edge of the Black Desert by 2050, using cheap land to …
From terracotta dunes and jagged mountains that rise above the clouds to the gilded mosques and fragrant souks of Muscat, the Sultanate of Oman combines natural wonders and ancient cultural heritage. Terracotta dunes and jagged mountains, fragrant souks and rich culture: Oman has it all Away from the city, nomadic Bedouin peoples patrol the land as they have for centuries, …
Arab leader's gamble to play kingmaker in Israel is paying off Enlarge this image toggle caption Abir Sultan/AP File Photo Abir Sultan/AP File Photo TEL AVIV, Israel — Mansour Abbas broke a longstanding taboo when he led his Arab party into Israel's governing coalition last year. "We are equal partners the whole way, part of the coalition, for the first …
