Algiers' fading beauty awaits better days
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Most camera-clicking tourists in the Mediterranean this summer will go home, as usual, without one of the world's most arresting images -- Algiers and its bay.
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On any other day but this one, the village of Ahmad al-Hamadi, on the green banks of the Euphrates, would be an idyllic place. In the rich agricultural gardens along the great river, it is easy to understand
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Drama unfolds: uninvited to an Armani show.
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Beneath the sparkling five-star tourist sheen of Taba lies a richly historical region that is littered with memories of failed Middle East peace processes.
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Alexandria, the Egyptian  coastal city where Cleopatra had love affairs with Julius  Caesar and Mark Anthony, is trying to regain some of its old  glory as a tourism destination for European and Arab elites.
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Central Beirut has acquired an eerie air of normality in the midst of the abnormal.
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The news reports streaming out of Abidjan, Ivory Coast&#39;s once shining metropolis, seem like a throwback to a bygone era: white men and women cowering in their homes
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Roba al-Asaly fingers the sliver of gold on her necklace and explains that it reminds her of a place "that's not there anymore."
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Despite the return of its founder, improvement will take time.
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Filled with moody shots of Zabarâs and lonely city streets, âAdrift in Manhattanâ looks dreamy and feels even less substantial.
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Giorgio Armani has an almost disquieting calm about him.
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Despite a rise in terror attacks, Algerians seem more concerned about getting mugged.
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There's a ray of sunshine in all that gloom and doom.
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Israeli bombs fall, gunmen feud in the streets. A trip to the 28-mile sliver of sand where dreams of peace are fading fast
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FURAWIYAH, Sudan -- Rummaging through the ashy debris of this abandoned village in a dingy gray suit, Moussa Safi is like a ghost in a ghost town.
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In some ways, this glossily enjoyable movie, which takes place in a Lebanese beauty parlor, is a lot closer to Hollywood than Beirut.
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The Taba attack is no longer hot news, and the tourism minister says business won&#39;t be affected. Egypt&#39;s minister of tourism, Ahmed El-Maghrabi, is brimming with incautious optimism.