Simon Akam
Articles by Simon Akam
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North America
''We're still fighting the Civil War here"
- 30 October 2008
Virginia, a former slave state and Republican stronghold, could help secure the presidency for Barack Obama if thousands of unregistered and disenfranchised black voters can be mobilised
North America
Marking 9/11
- 12 September 2008
- 2 comments
On the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks Obama and McCain came together in a brief suspension of electioneering at New York's Columbia University. Simon Akam reports
Travel
Eye of the storm
- 17 July 2008
- 1 comment
For all its warlike past, the Sinai peninsula is a quiet success story in a troubled region
Travel
Climb any mountain
- 27 March 2008
Touring the Swiss Alps, Simon Akam discovers that a pair of skis is an essential item for an uphill journey
Travel
Paris along the Nile
- 07 February 2008
Simon Akam takes a stroll down the crumbling, 19th-century boulevards of Cairo's European quarter
