It opens in darkness — the beams from headlamp flashlights and sparks of metal on rock our only points of illumination. This is the oppressive environment holdi...

It's the cusp of Eid in Algiers, Bab el Oued circa 2016 and the rams are running wild. Well, not wild per se considering each is bought, sold, and always owned....

The thing I could never wrap my head around, religious-wise, is the idea of strict right and wrong. As a Catholic it's somewhat easy as far as sin and repentanc...

Maria Theresia von Paradis was the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa's Court Councilor and thus a young woman of standing despite the blindness that took her ey...