Matt Yoka

Matt Yoka

  • Libya in Vitro

    Last summer, we met Mohammed and Nadia, a couple from Tripoli who had left their distressed home for six months to live in Jordan. They hoped to conceive through in vitro fertilization with the help of one of the country's best doctors, and full...

  • Libya In Vitro: Recovering from War (And Getting Pregnant, Too)

    If you're in the market for getting pregnant, it turns out there are few better times for medical tourism than after your dictator of thirty years is removed through a violent uprising.

  • The Agony And Ecstasy Of Electro Egypt

    On the eve of one of Egypt's most controversial elections, music rules a little corner of Cairo.

  • A Thirst for War

    I hung out with the nice guy of SOFEX. He sells water purifiers.

  • The Water of War

    The world's largest, gnarliest weapons expo has never been this refreshing.

  • The Nice Guy at the World's Largest Weapons Expo

    It was the second day of the Special Operation Forces Exhibition in Amman, Jordan, and the temperature outside the convention center was around 80 degrees Fahrenheit, with a typical chance of rain of zero. Drones of various sizes hovered in the hot...