Leon McCarron

Leon McCarron is a writer and broadcaster. He is a Yale World Fellow and the recipient of the Cherry Kearton Medal from the Royal Geographical Society.


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DATE POSTED
March 12, 2025
The Unlikely Revival Of A Great Middle Eastern Railroad
Could a railroad that once linked Damascus to Medina, its tracks and stations now crumbling into the desert or destroyed by treasure hun...
A photo of a railroad in Syria at sunset
DATE POSTED
October 19, 2021
Feature Climate Crisis
The Last Of The Marsh Arabs
What happens to a community and ecosystem at the nexus of geopolitical tensions and climate change? And can 6,000 years of history save them?