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It's perfectly safe to travel anywhere in the West Bank on your own. No one will bother you regardless of your religion or appearance. If...

It's always been possible to get a full Egyptian visa at Taba by making prior arrangements with a tour guide to meet you at the crossing....

You've been posting about the mythical "Hamas tourist visa" for months after someone saw a one-line news item on the Hamas website that...

The regime tends to spread misinformation and encourage paranoia about areas where there is a large Sunni population or where the people...

Completely impossible to study Arabic in Syria at the moment. Egypt is still an option, although it's understandable if you didn't want to...

I can't give you specific recommendations other than to say that the security concerns are somewhat overblown. There's no question that...

You do realize that you can call an immigration lawyer even without being in the country?

The city of Basra and the immediate surrounding areas are quite unsafe (although not as bad as Baghdad and the Sunni Triangle. The rest of...

As to mazgringo's ideas, I don't think English has yet developed words that are capable of expressing how wrong they are....

Do what you want, but if you willfully ignore the media and discount the testimony of anybody who tells you the situation is bad on the...

Alternatively, you can convert to Judaism. You can convert with a Reform rabbi in the space of a few weeks and get Israeli citizenship...

Re: 5 -- Yemen is on the verge of civil war, people are being killed every day, all foreigners have been evacuated, and it is currently...

Western governments only fund NGos working in the fields of peace, human rights and humanitarian support....

Re: 5 - As I said, the Ministry of the Interior doesn't issue visas for students at Palestinian universities, so the only way for a...

The government doesn't really want foreigners studying at Palestinian universities, so although they do nothing to proactively prevent...