Beyond the Voice of Battle
In an arena of guns and certainties, other fault lines fade to darkness. This latest wave of state violence aims at destroying the very conditions of audibility in which revolutionary voices can be heard
The ‘Left to Die’ Boat Scandal: How Dozens of Migrants Were Left By NATO Military Units to Perish at Sea
An exclusive investigation for the Guardian that provoked international outrage, and forced a policy change across Europe
An Escape From the Arab Uprisings: One Migrant's Voyage to Europe
Mohamed Munadi's Tunisian village was barely affected by the uprising, but when Libya erupted he was one of many who fled to new shores
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