Read the sidebar interview with Maitland (subscription required). Every fall I go to the Sinai Desert—that small triangle of rock and sand that pushes down between Africa and Saudi Arabia. Once upon a ...

A rock shelter with rock art and inscriptions spanning millennia has been discovered in Egypt.

Every year I lead a weeklong “adventure into silence” in the South Sinai—something between a retreat and a seminar in the deep desert. Each year when I return I get two sorts of comments. The first, ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 3,500-year-old military fortress with a zigzag-style wall in the north Sinai Desert of Egypt, not far from the Mediterranean coast. The fort is remarkably well ...

In 1968, along with about 40 other recent college graduates, I joined Sherut La’Am, sometimes referred to as the Israeli Peace Corps. It was about a year after the Six-Day War, and we were going to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ria Xi with local Bedouin in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula (Jack Lawes) Ria Xi had been running for about six days when disaster struck.