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Here in Jordan, the olive harvest and processing season is well into its first month with just under two months remaining of hard work...

It’s not often – to say the least – that the Arab world has cause to celebrate the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature...

When I was very young, I took up photography as a serious hobby. For a while I then spent most of my pocket money on buying film

The Taliban leadership has returned from exile in Qatar; Qatar and Turkey have offered to run Kabul airport for the Taliban

In my youth and well into my twenties I had one recurring dream and one recurring nightmare which I could not shake off easily.