The isolated oasis of Siwa, thirty miles east of the Libyan border in Egypt’s Western Desert, has featured throughout history as a site of desire and contest. If its old "Mountain of the Dead ...

The entrance to Tamazid, the environmentalist Mounir Neamatalla’s home in Egypt’s Siwa Oasis, like the rest ... a vast expanse of desert near the Libyan border and accessible only by car ...