Jack Shenker - Special Features

Cairo Divided

Jack Shenker — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:30:00 +0000

A megacity turns itself inside out

Exodus: A Sea and its People Evaporate

Jack Shenker — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:44:00 +0000

In Karakalpakstan, an obscure corner of central Asia where the waters of the Aral Sea have turned to desert, Jack Shenker finds a nation fleeing ecological disaster and authoritarian rule

Travel: The Other Egypt

Jack Shenker — Sat, 08 May 2010 21:55:00 +0000

One dodgy car, three irritable companions and 1000km by the Nile: Cairo to Luxor by road.

Repopulating an antique land: Egypt's forbidding Western Desert

Jack Shenker — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000

One hundred years ago, the British explorer WJ Harding King tried and failed to cross Egypt’s myth-laden Western Desert. Jack Shenker follows his footsteps into a once-isolated world on the cusp of transformation.

Death of the Nile: Egypt's climate change crisis

Jack Shenker — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:55:00 +0000

The Nile Delta is under threat from rising sea levels. Without the food it produces, Egypt faces catastrophe.

Gaza Laid Bare

Jack Shenker — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:42:00 +0000

December 27th, 2008: Operation Cast Lead and a society unstitched.

A market of the living amidst the tombs of the dead: Inside Souq el-Gomma

Jack Shenker — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:29:00 +0000

Prising open Egypt's cracks.

Khoza'a: Anatomy of a massacre

Jack Shenker — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:14:00 +0000

For over 24 hours earlier this month, a village in southern Gaza was devastated by an Israeli army attack. Jack Shenker revisits a day of destruction.