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Birth in the Americas’ poorest country

When Guns Are Silenced

A mourning mother’s peace mission

War Child: Q&A

An interview with Samantha Nutt, founder of War Child Canada

Latrine Graffiti, Kuwait and Afghanistan

American soldiers’ restroom graffiti in Afghanistan and Kuwait

It’s Hard to be a Saint in Sao Paulo

Stories and scenes from Brazil’s largest city

Latrine Graffiti, Kuwait and Afghanistan

American soldiers’ restroom graffiti in Afghanistan and Kuwait

Unsafe Practices

Can the Masai reconcile tradition with the realities of HIV?

War Child: Q&A

An interview with Samantha Nutt, founder of War Child Canada

Exclusive Photos: Kenya on the Brink

An exclusive photo gallery and essay traces the post-election violence in Kenya

Mission Not Yet Accomplished

How Iraq figures in Big Oil’s dreams

Road of Fire

The war in Afghanistan will be won or lost on Highway 1

To Die For

Activist design collective Fabrica uses icons of consumer culture to contrast lives in the affluent West with those in war-torn Darfur

The Show Must Go On

Qatar’s expats confront tragedy

Campesino Justice

A Mexican experiment that went too well

The Chinese Dust Bowl

In response to the rapid desertification of its once-fertile steppes and oases, China is undertaking the most ambitious environmental restoration in history.

Rebel Spell

Life after marriage to one of Africa’s most wanted men

War Stories

Rita Leistner’s “portraitscapes” of Lebanon, 2006. NMA nominee: Photojournalism & Photo Essay

Spain’s New Muslims

Converts have become the agreeable face of Spanish Islam

Paradise Lost

In the summer of 2006, a Montreal family went home to Lebanon. They found love, affection, and the horrors of war. Most never returned.

The Last Patriots

Are Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal finally bidding adieu?

Bonus photos for “War Stories”

The Very Strange Case of Hussein Ali Sumaida

A double agent for Saddam’s notorious Mukhabarat and Israel’s Mossad has returned to Canada. How did he get here? Did Canada once deliver him into torture? And has Sumaida finally found sanctuary?

A Russian Tragedy

Once soulful and historic, the Russian village is dying. Will the state survive?

All That Glitters

From jagged crevice to jeweller, Afghan gems travel a perilous path

Holy Intercourse

An Egyptian professor dispenses her sex advice to the Arabic-speaking world

Permanent Ways

Riding the midnight train to Moscow

The Hamas Dilemma

With all eyes focused on Palestine, will the Islamic Resistance Movement choose violence and ideology or pragmatic rule?

A House Divided

A young writer takes a surreal road trip through Israel and the West Bank in search of a legendary house where an Arab and a Jew live together in peace. NMA nominee: Essays

Europe’s Original Sin

After a bloody twentieth century, the continent may now be ready to come to terms with its dark history

Stars Above Africa

Celebrities have thrown their arms around Africa. Has the continent benefited from this awkward embrace?