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Articles of the author Hicham Safieddine
Blurred loyalties
Canada's political and social landscape continues to be shaken and shaped by the country's highest profile "terror" case since 9/11, reports Hicham Safieddine For over a week now, Canada has been gripped by the arrest and upcoming trial of 17 young (...)

22 - 06 - 2006
Discovering the world through non-European eyes
Other Routes: 1500 years of African and Asian Travel Writing, Tabish Khair, Justin Edwards, Martin Leer & Hanna Ziadeh, eds., Oxford: Signal Books, 2006. pp420 Travel! Set out for pastures new Life tastes richer when you have road-worn feet. No (...)

30 - 03 - 2006
Lebanese impasse
Domestic blunders in steering Lebanon to safety are turning an existing domestic crisis into a potential impasse, reports Hicham Safieddine Lebanon is bustling with political developments on a daily basis. But most seem heading in conflicting (...)

02 - 03 - 2006
Countdown to showdown
The battle for the presidency appears to be face of the ultimate showdown between the two dominating alliances in Lebanon, writes Hicham Safieddine "The sea is in front of you and the enemy is behind you." With these battle-rousing words, Lebanese (...)

23 - 02 - 2006
One year on
The anniversary of the killing of Al-Hariri was also a time to settle political scores among the Lebanese, writes Hicham Safieddine One year on from the assassination of Rafik Al-Hariri, hundreds of thousands commemorated the slain Lebanese former (...)

16 - 02 - 2006
A different cup of tea
Hicham Safieddine finds this year's Cultural Café striving after relevance It is almost half past two on Monday afternoon at the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF), half an hour after the seminar on street kids is supposed to start. Over 100 (...)

02 - 02 - 2006
Torture Titan
The release of a new scathing human rights report has made US denials of employing a torture policy increasingly untenable, reports Hicham Safieddine Hundreds of millions of people around the world were vindicated in their belief that torture is a (...)

26 - 01 - 2006
Coming out for Canada
With minority government rule today's norm in Canada, Arabs and Muslims are starting to play a bigger role in politics, writes Hicham Safieddine Walk down the street in central Toronto or Montreal on any given Sunday. Odds are you couldn't make an (...)

26 - 01 - 2006
Falling fig leaf
Politicians' claims of goodwill and faith in a united Lebanon are increasingly ringing hollow, writes Hicham Safieddine Simmering tension between the different Lebanese factions turned into a scathing war of words and spilled out on the streets of (...)

19 - 01 - 2006
Citizenship call
Hicham Safieddine attends as Kifaya moves from the street and into the conference room Twelve months ago they decided enough was enough and rallied Egyptians from all political walks of life into the streets in a bid to reclaim the right to protest (...)

10 - 01 - 2006
Island people
Hicham Safieddine visits the Manzala Lake islands where, looking to mainland help, people face an uphill struggle to build their community When the sun rises over the shores of Port Said, site of the Manzala Lake docks, the view becomes a (...)

10 - 01 - 2006
Saving the best for last
A Cairene family tells Hicham Safieddine why the New Year holiday season will never upstage the thrill of Coptic Christmas Youssef Beshay lets out a chuckle as his mother Nelly lists the dishes she could cook for Christmas. "By the time the Eid (...)

05 - 01 - 2006
Aborted hopes
Fifteen years after the end of the civil war, 2005 shook Lebanon to the core, writes Hicham Safieddine On 14 February, around 12.50pm, a motorcade of six cars left Nejmeh Square facing the Houses of Parliament in downtown Beirut. Moments later, a (...)

29 - 12 - 2005
Budding creativity
When reality fails to live up to the dreams of Old Cairo's children, spontaneous creativity comes to the rescue, writes Hicham Safieddine It is showtime for Mahmoud Ahmed Hussein. His hair is neatly cropped, and his clean hands reach out with a (...)

22 - 12 - 2005
Ministers' musical chairs
After the killing of Gibran Tueni, the Lebanese government's house of many mansions is slowly turning into a house of cards, reports Hicham Safieddine Lebanon inched closer towards a political deadlock over how it must be governed by the various (...)

22 - 12 - 2005
Truth postponed
The assassination of Gibran Tueni, coinciding with the release of the second Mehlis report, dashed hopes for Lebanon's recovery, reports Hicham Safieddine The Lebanese may have little to celebrate this upcoming New Year. The assassination of (...)

15 - 12 - 2005
Grave measures
Wrangling over the prospect of an international court and the discovery of mass graves rattles Lebanon, writes Hicham Safieddine The first extension of the United Nations investigation mission into the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik (...)

08 - 12 - 2005
Internet wrangles
The WSIS is over, but digitally-developing nations have yet to bridge the divide, reports Hicham Safieddine In his keynote speech at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the (...)

24 - 11 - 2005
Rock the desert
Germany's Scorpions rocked the Pyramid grounds in Giza and fans want more, writes Hicham Safieddine "Alright Cairo! Shokran, shokran," yelled out the band's front man and vocalist Klaus Meine. The crowd loved it. It was last Thursday and the (...)

24 - 11 - 2005
A growing divide
Cracks in the echelons of the Lebanese government are beginning to show, and mounting pressure on Syria is likely to widen the divisions, reports Hicham Safieddine Following the death of Rafik Al-Hariri, a mantra of all Lebanese political factions (...)

17 - 11 - 2005
Wait for it
As pressure on Damascus reaches new heights, Lebanese politicians warm up for possible repercussions on their side of the border, reports Hicham Safieddine All eyes are fixed on Syria following Security Council Resolution 1636 calling on Damascus to (...)

10 - 11 - 2005
Patriotic act unlimited
It was created as an emergency tool to fight "terror", but the Patriot Act is headed for renewal as the law of the land for Americans, reports Hicham Safieddine Four years ago, the United States government introduced the Patriot Act, a piece of (...)

02 - 11 - 2005
Inching closer to the truth
Detlev Mehlis' initial report on the assassination of Rafik Al-Hariri raises new political scenarios in the Middle East. Al-Ahram Weekly provides special in-depth coverage and expert analysis on the various political and legal issues stemming from (...)

27 - 10 - 2005
Attracting the adults
Adult cartoons attract huge audiences in the US. Hicham Safieddine wonders whether the Arabised Simpsons will do the same here Gulf-based TV network MBC is hoping The Simpsons, the adult cartoon that has dominated airtime in North America for a (...)

20 - 10 - 2005
US energy predicament
It's called the black gold, and it drives the world's largest economy and its foreign political agenda. But the word black is taking on a dark meaning for the US this hurricane season First it was Katrina and now it's Rita. What is next? A closer (...)

29 - 09 - 2005
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