Egypt 2011: ‘The World Turned Upside Down’
A selection of news, comment and analysis from Jack Shenker’s award-winning Guardian coverage of Egypt’s revolutionary uprising
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.
Death of the Nile: Egypt’s Climate Change Crisis
The Nile Delta is under threat from rising sea levels. Without the food it produces, Egypt faces catastrophe.
A Market of the Living Amidst the Tombs of the Dead: Inside Soul El-Gomma
Prising open Egypt's cracks
Khaza’a: Anatomy of a Massacre
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.
Band of Outsiders
Excluded from the rapid development of Sinai’s tourist coast and subject to a prolonged police crackdown, the Bedouins who have made the Peninsula their home for centuries now teeter on the brink of social implosion