Simon Akam

Articles by Simon Akam

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Marking 9/11

  • 12 September 2008
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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

Waiting for the weather

  • 04 September 2008

An observation on hurricane Gustav

Deadly serious

  • 21 August 2008

The Private Patient P D James Faber & Faber, 416pp, £18.99

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

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

Paris along the Nile

  • 07 February 2008

Simon Akam takes a stroll down the crumbling, 19th-century boulevards of Cairo's European quarter

Andrew Stephen

President Cheney?

Get ready for President Cheney

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Tory foes

If Dave doesn’t win, it’s open season

James Macintyre

Lib Dem dilemma

The Lib Dem dilemma

Film review

Sons of Cuba

Sons of Cuba (PG)

Television

Fat Man in a White Hat

Fat Man in a White Hat

John Gray

Anarchism's failure

The World That Never Was: a True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents

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