Egypt

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  • The myth weavers

    Three leading leftist figures have been exposed this year as having lied about their backgrounds. Has the failure of their ideology forced them to fictionalize?
    By David Horowitz September 27, 1999

  • Once upon a time in the Sinai desert

    An impetuous camel safari with two Bedouin guides opens up an enduring ancient world.
    By Laura Fraser June 26, 1999

  • This week in travel

    Wanderlust's select guide to the top travel-related news stories from around the globe
    By Susanna Stromberg January 8, 1999

  • How to turn a criminal to a hero

    The U.S. attacks on Osama bin Laden have transformed him into a local hero.
    By Jonathan Broder August 26, 1998

  • Blinded in the desert

    Hospitality and hostility become blurred for a traveler stranded among Bedouins at the desolate tip of the Sinai.
    By Andrew Bill June 19, 1998

  • Ramadan

    In Egypt to search for her father's past, a woman first discovers a young lover on a journey from Cairo to Alexandria.
    By Mona Simpson June 5, 1998

  • My worst travel experience

    A reader's tale of a bus trip that went disastrously awry in the Egyptian desert.
    By Rachael Pettus March 5, 1998

  • Newsreal: Finish the job? Not in our lifetime

    The U.S. can't "go all the way" in Iraq because Saddam Hussein's neighbors need to keep him around.
    By Jonathan Broder February 23, 1998

  • Paradise found

    Tracy Johnston discovers the still unspoiled oasis of Siwa in the Egyptian desert.
    By Tracy Johnston January 27, 1998

  • Newsreal: Purveyor of catastrophe

    Khomeini, Saddam, the killing of the Kurds, war after war in the Middle East -- all brought to you by the U.S. arms trade. Maybe it's time for Washington to rethink its policy.
    By Jonathan Broder December 5, 1997

  • Newsreal: Shape of things to come

    Neither the massacre at Luxor nor the confrontation between the U.S. and Iraq are the real stories in the Middle East. Overshadowing everything is the failing Arab-Israeli peace process and the failure of the Clinton administration to do anything about it.
    By Jonathan Broder November 19, 1997

  • Newsreal: Massacre in the desert

    A former New York Times Cairo bureau chief describes the group behind the attack that killed over 60 people near Luxor, Egypt, and explains why they go after foreign tourists as a way of getting a radical Islamic state.
    By Andrew Ross November 18, 1997

  • Carolyn Chute's Wicked Good Militia

    The author of "The Beans of Egypt, Maine" is leading an army of grave, silent woodsmen in a backwoods campaign against corporate greed
    By Dwight Garner February 24, 1996
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