My pick for travel in 2016 is Iran
As I write in Travel + Leisure, for the traveler the nuclear accord makes Iran newly accessible
My favorite museum in Cairo damaged by a car bomb
Terror attack on Egyptian police HQ badly damages the Museum of Islamic Art, an overlooked marvel
Dead, but right, in Beirut
Hezbollah can’t kill everyone in Lebanon who believes it should give up its weapons
Ghost of Judith Miller returns to the NY Times
In the form of Ronen Bergman, whose cover story on Israel attacking Iran reads as propaganda
The UN calls out the Iranian nuclear program
But what if Iran is just bluffing? Saddam did that and it worked for years