The road to the Tree of Life in Bahrain feels like a wrong turn, with one long stretch of the Sakhir Desert folding into another. When the 32-foot Persian mesquite tree finally appears, about 25 miles ...

The child of parents who both served in the U.S. Navy, much of Mikayla McGhee's early life was spent moving from military base to military base. McGhee, 30, spent most of her time living abroad in ...

Deborah Wilson of Winston-Salem, who has been a fourth-grade teacher in Bahrain for the past year and a half, has been mostly holed up since the protests began in the country last week. She lives in ...

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