“When you live long enough inside a scientific and technological marvel you start to get used to it.”

The luxury stone is being mined at the expense of the region and its people.

“A steady hand on the wheel takes an unblinking courage.”

Discarded documents from Assad’s regime offer clues to Syrians searching for lost family and friends.

Freak tornadoes, “explosions” of jellyfish, flash floods and dried up pumps.

“In writing about snails, I wanted to write about slowness and strangeness, solitude and death, hibernation and estivation.”