Between January 21st and February 19th each year, the Chinese New Year takes place over a two-week period. It's the second new moon since the winter solstice that marks the first day of the Chinese calendar, a luni-solar calendar based as much on solar cycles to count...
The horsemen of Djougou They are traders in exotic products, company directors, schoolteachers and truck drivers. They're all different, yet they share a common passion: Arabian horses. We are in Djougou, a small crossroads town in northwest Benin, forty kilometers...
The enthronement of the Bariba king We're in Natitingou, a town in northwest Benin, capital of the Atacora department. 32 ethnic groups speaking 32 dialects meet in this crossroads town between Togo, Burkina-Faso, Niger and Benin. This evening, the main artery is...
Cedar iris, iris cedreti dinsmore, is an endemic plant of the Bsharry cedar region in Lebanon. It is in danger of extinction. Today, one man is trying to save it. Cedar iris, iris Cedreti Dinsmore, is endemic to the Cedar region (Al Arz) above Bsharry in Lebanon. It...
September 16, 2025 marks the 43rd anniversary of the Sabra and Chatila massacres. Forty-three years in which history seems frozen in an eternal restart: the Palestinians remain refugees, landless, stateless, with no prospect of return. Since 1948, 77 years ago, whole...
Of all the world's ancient cities, few are as astonishing and awe-inspiring as Petra. Located between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea in Jordan, 200 km south of the capital Amman. Petra, the Nabataean, lies in a valley in the mountainous region of Edom. It is the...