The economic free fall accompanying the coronavirus pandemic has, by some measures, made the world a cleaner place. Air pollution in Chinese, Indian, andU.S.cities is way down. InChinaalone, lower…

Lebanese singer and actress Fairuz is widely considered to be one of the most celebrated Arab singers of the 20th century. Fairuzwas born Nuhad al-Haddad,in 1935, the eldest child of…

Asked for her opinion regarding the coronavirus which had just appeared in China, Dame Jane Goodall, the conservationist and expert on chimpanzees, said it was nature’s way of ‘fighting back’. Can we…

At his Cairo apartment, located just off a busy road along the Nile River, Ashraf el-Helw, a third-generation Egyptian lion trainer, prepares for a show with his big cats. Instead of a…

A Palestinian woman from Syria has become the first refugee living in a camp in Lebanon to test positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday. The woman resided in the only Palestinian camp in eastern…

Davi Kopenawa is the genuine article, a shaman whose dreamworld is attuned to the wonders of the Amazon rainforest. What can he tell us about the damage we are doing to the world? Over a…

In his twenties, John Constable, the great English landscape painter, fell in love with a woman called Maria Bicknell whom he had known since she was the age of twelve. They exchanged letters that…

China’s expulsion of more than a dozen American journalists is being heralded as another step towarda new Cold War. Chinese officials are crowing about sovereignty; the expulsions, by their telling,…

This may well be the single most important book on Europe’s global influence to appear in a decade. Many believe that Europe’s international standing is declining in a world…

On February 15, 2020, Hezbollah organized a ceremony to unveil a statue of Qassem Soleimani in the Lebanese town of Maroun al-Ras, roughly half a mile from the border with Israel. The statue…