Greater Middle East

Yemen: Sufis make New York Times —again

The New York Times reports from Yemen’s Hadramawt, where a Sufi school is attempting to reclaim the area’s reputation from the media moniker of “ancestral homeland” of Osama bin Laden.

The Andes

Peru: no global warming skeptics in Huaraz

As international experts gather in Lima to debate the impacts of global warming on the Andean region, local campesinos are already feeling its effects in Huaraz.

The Amazon

Peru: Hunt Oil contract to re-ignite Amazon uprising?

Harakmbut leaders in Peru’s Amazon region of Madre de Dios issued a statement imposing a one-week deadline for Hunt Oil to quit their territory before indigenous communities physically expel them.