Helena Smith
Articles by Helena Smith
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World Affairs
The rebels with raging hormones
- 01 July 2002
"In Iran," said the businessman, "we do everything - sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It's just that we do it behind closed doors." And they talk about it incessantly, as Helena Smith discovered
World Affairs
At last, they're sitting in again
- 08 April 2002
In America, campus protest is back - and this time, the campaign is not for faraway peasants, but for workers close to home. Helena Smithreports
Culture
Rhyme time
- 14 January 2002
Poetry - Helena Smith discovers that war and strife are friends to great verse
Politics
11 September? A Zionist plot!
- 26 November 2001
In Greece, they burn US flags and jeer the minute's silence for New York's terror victims. Helena Smith on the most anti-American country in Europe
Politics
In the dead zone, a hope for peace
- 08 October 2001
Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have been foes for almost 30 years. But some of the islanders have decided to end the civil strife - in defiance of their leaders
Culture
Capital of memory
- 03 September 2001
In the ancient library of Alexandria, scholars first calculated the circumference of the earth and mapped the stars. And then it was lost. As its eccentric successor rises in this Egyptian seaport, will anyone use it, asks Helena Smith
Politics
A new Che leads protest in paradise
- 07 May 2001
It looks like a sleepy Caribbean island, but Vieques is where the US tries out its bombs and uranium-tipped bullets. And the natives are restless
Politics
Why Brits stampede to the other Cambridge
- 12 February 2001
Laura Spence kick-started a rush of transatlantic applications to Harvard. Helena Smith on why the grass seems greener on the other side of the pond
