Welcome to the Land That No Country Wants
In 2014, an American dad claimed a tiny parcel of 'unclaimed' African land to make his daughter a princess. But Jack Shenker had got there first – and learned that borders are delicate and volatile things
Exodus: A Sea and Its People Evaporate
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
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
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.
A Market of the Living Amidst the Tombs of the Dead: Inside Soul El-Gomma
Prising open Egypt's cracks