When Ioannis Bougiouris was a boy in Athens, he split his time between the city he called home and the village where his mother grew up, Vresthena. “For the holidays, for the weekends and every summer ...

It soars over the borders and divisions of the war-torn Middle East, bringing Arab and Israeli academics together.

The president’s efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings that house it, as he pushes designs that he says “command respect.” ...