Al-BAB

Most analysis points to economic failure, unemployment and corruption as the lead causes of the uprisings in the Arab world. Certainly, t...

A unique and little known community that flies below the radar of most tourist itineraries can be found east of Amman, along Jordan’s de...

A few hours drive north of Beirut lies a collection rugged of valleys and gorges running down from Lebanon’s high alpine range. This spe...

Legend has it that a young man grew up in the city of Byblos, and became so handsome and prominent that he was called "Adon" (or ...

Lebanon is famous for its biblical cedars. But there are also ancient olive trees in the country that rival the cedars in age and beauty. ...

Overshadowed by the heavily trafficked tourist sites of Petra and Wadi Rum, is one of Jordan’s least known treasures. Ninety kilometers sout...

Situated on the Tigris River in southeastern Turkey, the village of Hasankeyf may be the oldest continually settled town on earth. It is a p...

For millenia, humans settled the land between the two rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris, to grow their crops, raise their families, and b...

The UN released a report earlier this week stating that a large number of urban areas in Asia and Africa today are blanketed by a toxic clou...

The Cedars of Lebanon stand solitary on a mountain top. What little remains of these majestic trees is a silent testament to the health, or ...