Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ancient mariners called it the Island of the Djinns. Greek and Arab sailors took it for Paradise and imagined ...

Most people would struggle to place it on a map, but Socotra is one of the world’s last unspoiled island chains – an archipelago off the coast of Yemen that has wildlife so diverse it has been ...

One hundred and fifty miles off the Horn of Africa lies a tiny archipelago of islands known as Socotra. Because of its extreme isolation from other land masses, Socotra has very unique plant life, a ...

The Socotra archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean, has been referred to as the most alien place on Earth because of its bizarre, long-lost, and otherworldly features. The Socotra archipelago has ...

On the other side of the world, in the middle of another ocean, lies a second Galapagos: the remote island of Socotra where more than one third of the 800 or so local plant species are found nowhere ...

Socotra Archipelago, in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden, is 250 km long and comprises four islands and two rocky islets which appear as a prolongation of the Horn of Africa. The site ...

Between Africa and Arabia lies an island of rare biological oddities—one that’s buffeted now by development, cyclones, and civil war. The Socotra dragon's blood tree, Dracaena cinnabari, can live a ...

Legend has it the otherworldly dragon’s blood tree first grew on the spot where two brothers, Darsa and Samha, fought to the death. In Arabic, it is known as dam al akhawain – “the blood of the two ...

He has produced a photography book of his travels in Socotra Most people would struggle to place it on a map, but Socotra is one of the world’s last unspoiled island chains – an archipelago off the ...