Weekend Reading: Sinai Tourism, Lebanon's Refugees, and Middle Eastern Street Art
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Weekend Reading: Sinai Tourism, Lebanon's Refugees, and Middle Eastern Street Art

Hikers walk in the Wadi Hudra area in South Sinai, Egypt (Asmaa Waguih/Reuters).
Hikers walk in the Wadi Hudra area in South Sinai, Egypt (Asmaa Waguih/Reuters).

Reading selections for the weekend of August 25, 2017.

Post by Steven A. Cook

August 25, 2017 6:00 pm (EST)

Hikers walk in the Wadi Hudra area in South Sinai, Egypt (Asmaa Waguih/Reuters).
Hikers walk in the Wadi Hudra area in South Sinai, Egypt (Asmaa Waguih/Reuters).
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Enas El Masry explores efforts by Bedouin tribes to boost domestic tourism in the southern Sinai Peninsula.

Zeead Yaghi recounts how waves of refugees throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have shaped the Lebanese city of Karantina.

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Camille Reynolds looks at the communal benefits and future of street art in the Middle East during times of increasing oppression.

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Middle East and North Africa

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