Driving down the streets of Baghdad
On a giant billboard in front of the Iraqi ministry of Youth in Baghdad, a sign reads: "Forgive and be merciful for a unified Iraq.
The streets are busy with pedestrians and shoppers. We drive down Saadoon (...)
We travelled to Bahrain, where despite a generally positive economic situation and relatively high GDP per capita, there is still a portion of the local population that is left on the sidelines of economic prosperity.
According to a recent United (...)
The most innocuous of inquiries, the most aboveboard of assignments pique the interest of security agencies across the region.
In Egypt, television journalists know this all too well. I experienced it once again, first hand, while filming this (...)
PETRA: Locals at the Wehdat Palestinian refugee camp used to toss their garbage on the front steps of the town s main day center for the mentally disabled.
Back when the daily activity center opened its doors in 2001, explains social worker Bayan (...)
Was the destruction bad in Beirut? asked the driver on the way to Tel Aviv s Ben Gurion airport.
Some parts weren t touched, I answered. Others, in the southern suburbs, were completely flattened, I added, remembering vivid scenes of smouldering, (...)
In the TV news business, if a story breaks, you better be ready to turn on a dime, pack your bags and head to the nearest airport.
I was calmly preparing a trip to Dubai to host the December edition of Inside the Middle East, when the (...)
Every once in a while, we TV journalists have to admit that we've made a bad choice of stories. You can research an idea from afar, call local producers to check that it's viable, arrange for interviews and apply for all the proper permissions, yet (...)
Saad Al-Jassem slips out of his dishdasha revealing a body in extraordinary shape for a man who turns 70 this year. On a traditional wooden dhow off Doha s corniche, Saad is getting ready to show me how to dive for pearls.
My producer Schams (...)