Dispatches

When Anshel Pfeffer moved to Jerusalem he realised one thing very quickly: it’s not who you know that counts, it’s the secrets you know

What a terrible design featuring the Brandenburg Gate tells us about Berlin’s charming – and very un-German – carelessness

How to get through your first Korean wedding without making too many faux pas

The Japanese government believes robots and humans can live happily side by side. Our correspondent steps into the shoes of an “immigrant from the future”

As The Economist’s Europe columnist, Tom Nuttall had covered EU crises many times before. But this one was personal

It’s hard to be a reporter in Saudi Arabia during Ramadan, especially when it’s 40 degrees

The story behind a failed Chinese investment is stranger than it seems

Had it not been for the civil war, Americans might still be playing cricket, not baseball

Unlike in Britain and America, food is still central to working life in South-East Asia. A delicious – and daunting – prospect for an impeccably polite foreign correspondent

Given its rich history and maze-like streets, Cairo should be a flâneur’s paradise. It is, but only once you get off the pavement