How Arab Sailors Shaped Life in the Maldives

Scattered like a broken string of pearls across the deep indigo of the central Indian Ocean, the Maldives have always […]

Migratory Birds of the Maldives

Though scattered across the open Indian Ocean, the Maldives is far from isolated in ecological terms. Each year, as seasons

At first light in the Maldives, the islands seem to breathe with the sea. White shapes drift over coconut palms.

In the Maldives, where land is fragile and the ocean is everywhere, power has never belonged solely to kings or

WHERE THE CRYSTALLINE turquoise of the Maldivian lagoons meets the abrupt, bottomless indigo of the Indian Ocean, a boundary exists.

At first light, the sea around the Maldives is calm enough to mirror the sky. A wooden fishing boat drifts

Standing Inside the Stone Today, I stood inside Hukuru Miskiiy, in Malé, camera in hand—expecting history, but not quite prepared

Along the warm coral slopes of the Maldives, where light fractures into shifting patterns of gold and pink, a small