For a long time, the Mediterranean was a battleground exclusively for European and other Western powers. These days it is becoming crowded.
Mediterranean Sea
Column by Daniel Gerlach, zenith editor-in-chief: Battle over the Mediterranean
Will the EU Act Over Lebanon’s Pollution?
Beirut has created two giant landfills that are polluting the Mediterranean. Will the EU simply watch the unfolding environmental disaster, or will it act?
Identity and Corruption in Alexandria
As Alexandria – Egypt’s second city – removes public access to beaches along its shoreline, citizens grapple with what it means to be Alexandrian in a city where the sea has defined identity.