My pick for travel in 2016 is Iran
As I write in Travel + Leisure, for the traveler the nuclear accord makes Iran newly accessible
The ancient theater in Sabratha, Libya
Anarchy in post-Gaddafi Libya sends me into storage to find photos I took on my trip there in 2004
How I got to Libya one month after the embargo was lifted
Ten years ago the US lifted its embargo on Libya. I landed a month later. It was complicated
The Yugoslav war reappears in Syria
War never ends: it breeds skills that just get applied to perpetrating bad deeds later on
A vial of Saharan sand from the Acacus region in Libya
The Acacus felt so remote that, now, only something as material as sand confirms I was really there
Seif al-Islam captured in the Sahara
Last of the Gaddafi clan was found in the Libyan desert near Ubari, which I visited in 2004
They are dancing in Tripoli
Suddenly, the rebels have taken the heart of Libya’s capital and Gaddafi’s end is near
Norway and the loss of innocence
It was always a myth, a very Norwegian way to boast about their own modesty
Visiting the land of ethnic cleansing
The triumph of Sarajevo: cosmopolitanism survives the nativists’ war
How my journey to Beirut ended up on an art gallery wall
I had become a migratory subject for the artist Walead Beshty
The surreal experience of visiting Libya
With a Libyan human rights activist, racing through the Tripoli medina alleys to avoid eavesdroppers
Where the Egypt revolution began
Egypt’s current demonstrations build on years of work by civil society groups
So, is Ghent really better than Antwerp and Bruges?
Sean’s Ghent article in Travel + Leisure sparks controversy as local partisans weigh in