This video explores the growing debate over khat, a plant used for centuries as a social stimulant. It reveals why some communities see it as harmless while others fear its addictive potential.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's plan to ban khat, a leafy plant chewed as a stimulant in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula, should be dropped because it could alienate immigrants and damage ...

Across the countryside of this nation on the heel of the Arabian Peninsula, the pumps and drills roar. Wildcatters bore as much as 1,000 feet into the earth and draw out water. They pump it into ...

1. Introduction : social & historiographical contexts -- 2. The setting : regional geography & human landscape -- 3. Land & railway : structures of agriculture & trade : 1875-1935 -- 4. Production : ...