Inside the Bedouin's secret garden
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Travel: Ed Douglas experiences an ancient way of life in the farms and villages of the Sinai desert on an 'ethical trek' that aims to safeguard the communities it visits.
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CAIRO, 12 October 2004 - For decades the Israelis have enjoyed a love affair with the unspoiled beauty and tranquility of Egyptian Sinai and its Red Sea resorts â-o near and yet so far from the crowded commercialism of Eilat.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 11 -- Two rows of glowing orbs cast a warm light on the marble fountain in the outdoor garden. Columns of ice-cream cones rise neatly behind the new plate-glass windows. A row of red letters -- "Hassan" -- twinkles with white lights and the promise that this Baghdad restaurant's ch...
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The author of âFlower Confidential,â a book that is part confession, part exposÃ©, tours the cityâs flower district.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - In a matter of weeks, once   the bells are in place and the marble tiles laid, the final   chapter in a century-long saga over a Greek Orthodox monastery   in the middle of the West Bank may finally be written.
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EL-BIREH, West Bank -- Nariman Yazbak and her 2-year-old daughter, Salma, left their home in the West Bank town of El Bireh last April for a routine visit to relatives in Jordan.
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SAMARRA (Iraq) - Too afraid to stray far, residents buried the dead in their gardens as US and Iraqi forces battled pockets of resistance on Saturday in this former insurgent stronghold.
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By Steve Riches  THERE are few things in the gardening world more satisfying than creating your own wildlife sanctuary.
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By Jan Riggenbach  With the last of the paste tomatoes and bush beans picked, the plants are ready to pull. In the flower garden, tubs quickly fill with yellowing leaves, faded flowers and declining annuals.
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Israeli intelligence is struggling to get to grips with highly sophisticated Hamas in West Bank bastion. By Majeda El-Batsh - HEBRON, West Bank.
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BINT JBEIL, Lebanon  - Like a small black   football, it lies in the dirt not far from Haitham Daaboul's   front door in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil.
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Arts & entertainment: From the Republic of Congo to the drizzle of the South Bank comes a tropical villa for the people
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 10 -- From the roof of his home just inside the Old City walls, Palestinian landlord Nasser Karain has a view of the valleys and plateaus where scriptures say Solomon built the first Temple, Jesus was betrayed and Muhammad rose to heaven.
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Comment is free: Soumaya Ghannoushi: The occupation has helped to pave the way for this presence in Palestine.
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DAMASCUS, Syria -- The crowd begins filling the courtyard of Opaline, a trendy new restaurant, as late evening teeters toward early morning. Many arrive by golf cart, whisked through dim alleys to the wooden doors of a centuries-old Arab home within the walls of the Old City.
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A new Mideast radio station is attracting both Palestinians and Israelis. How a format created during South Africaâs apartheid era is offering a fresh forum in a troubled region.
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a small, prefabricated affair, consisting of just six cells. They have an incentive to build it well: seven of them could soon be living there.