Remembering visits to Syria’s lesser-known sites from antiquity, now threatened by conflict.
This is part of a series of "diaries" by veteran photojournalist Norbert Schiller, reflecting on his world travels in decades past: Up until the beginning of the civil war, in the spring of 2011, I traveled to Syria regularly for nearly two decades. Unlike most journalists, who had a difficulty procuring a Syrian visa, I had it relatively easy.
Some truckers are organizing what they call a “Ride for the Constitution” through the nation’s capital.
While calls for truckers to strike in response to high fuel prices are more common than many Americans may realize, a group of truckers is reportedly planning a three-day protest to shut down the U.S., specifically Washington, D.C., by halting the transportation of goods across the country. Other than saying they are protesting “corruption against
One counterintuitive result of a recession is that workers are under more pressure — much to the delight of employers.
By any estimate, the Great Recession was indeed great. No recession since the Great Depression has have the same kind of toll on the social and economic fabric of the United States as this recent one. Per analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, this recession has been the longest period of economic contraction since 1933. Gross
Israel wants revisions on guidelines that forbid funds from going to illegal settlements.
Last week, EU and Israeli negotiators failed to agree on new funding rules for Israeli participation in Horizon 2020, a €80 billion (about $107 billion) European research funding program that will run from January 2014 for seven years. Israel says it will not take part under the new guidelines, published by the European Commission last July, which
A diverse variety of Americans have found medical, recreational and practical uses for the plant.
As marijuana and hemp is legalized in more and more states, the end of marijuana prohibition seems inevitable. With an increasing acceptance of marijuana use, an interesting phenomenon is occurring: the face of marijuana users is changing. Gone is the image of the shaggy-haired teen boy, who would toke up on a couch in his parents’ basement with
Tense divisions continue between the Turkish government and the country’s Kurdish minority.
On Sept. 18, a Turkish parliamentary commission debated an article regarding citizenship and education rights. Skirmishes followed a meeting of lawmakers who had “a hard time reconciling long-standing differences in formulating the right to education in mother tongue and citizenship,” Turkish daily Hurriyet reported. While arguing that Kurdish
