Discover the unusual story of Jordan’s ‘panhandle’, a cartographical curiosity in the far eastern desert borderlands between Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The empty highway led northeast from Azraq. Leaving behind the sparse palms and military...
Discover the story of the Hejaz Railway, an audacious Ottoman-era plan to unite the Middle East, and how it could soon be resurrected. The Hejaz Railway was the most ambitious engineering project the Ottoman Empire ever embarked on. Intended to link...
In Istanbul, the city’s food scene tells hidden stories of exile. Here’s what I discovered on a refugee-led culinary tour of the Turkish metropolis. By Richard Collett “Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this...
I’m Richard, and I’m on a quest to understand the world through its borders and boundaries.
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