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Kareem Shaheen

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Kareem Shaheen is a veteran Middle East correspondent in Canada

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A man shovels snow during a winter storm in Canada. Reuters
Montreal's long winter nights during the pandemic

It felt sometimes like we were the only ones in the world

CommentApril 08, 2021
A Lebanese food festival in Minneapolis where women church members baked and sold over 1,000 slices of zaatar bread. Getty
In search of a good thyme: can 'real' zaatar be found in the West?

Not all zaatar mixes are created equal, and not all can be created far from home

CommentApril 01, 2021
FILE - In this March 9, 2021, file photo, a man reads a copy of The Standard newspaper with coverage of the two-hour appearance of Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan with Oprah Winfrey, in Nairobi, Kenya. In countries with historic ties to Great Britain, allegations by Prince Harry and Meghan about racism within the royal family have raised questions about whether those nations want to be closely connected to Britain anymore. (AP Photo/Sayyid Abdul Azim, File)
If traffic drove journalist pay, nothing you read would matter

Instead of hard truths, readers would get endless gossip and speculation

CommentMarch 24, 2021
People carry banners and opposition flags during a demonstration, marking the 10th anniversary of the start of the Syrian conflict, in the opposition-held Idlib this week. With the Assad regime entrenched in power, it is natural for Syrians to ask themselves, did the revolution fail? Khalil Ashawi
I watched Syrians on Clubhouse grapple with their failed revolution

Listening in on their stories made me realise that the failure in question was not one that belonged to them

CommentMarch 17, 2021
10,000 women are thought to remain under arrest in Syria. AP
The lesser-known sacrifices made by women in Syria's war

International Women's Day should remind us of the heavy burden Syria's females carry

CommentMarch 10, 2021
Iraqi and Vatican flags, as well as posters, are being put up in central Baghdad to welcome Pope Francis. EPA
Pope's Iraq visit should give some Middle East powers pause

For all the pain visited upon the people here, so many in the Middle East forget to acknowledge their suffering

CommentMarch 03, 2021
Candlelight vigil at Mel Lastman Square in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for the victims of the Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752 crash. Getty
Zarif's leaked recording showed who's boss in Tehran

The international community must keep in mind it's the IRGC that makes the real decisions in Tehran

CommentMarch 03, 2021
TOPSHOT - A boy awaits departure during the release of another group of Syrian families from the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp which holds suspected relatives of Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in Hasakeh governorate of northeastern Syria, on February 20, 2021. / AFP / Delil SOULEIMAN
Don't leave Syrian refugees behind in the vaccination drive

Not inoculating them leaves many countries vulnerable to the pandemic’s aftershocks

CommentFebruary 24, 2021
Millions of Syrians have been forced to flee their country since the war began in 2011. AFP
Syria's cash-strapped government is extorting refugees

Assad's regime is using rules on military service to threaten to seize assets of Syrians who've fled abroad

CommentFebruary 17, 2021
A protester dressed in a batman outfit takes part in a demonstration against the military coup in Myanmar this week. AFP
Our Myanmar surprise is shaped by simplistic narratives

Lack of in-depth reporting of events in faraway places skew people's perceptions

CommentFebruary 11, 2021
The pandemic has changed the way we educate our young. AFP
Some schools face graver threats than Covid-19

The pandemic's impact on education has shown us how we took it for granted. For Syrian children, this is nothing new

CommentFebruary 08, 2021
A pedestrian passes in front of a sign for a Covid-19 vaccination clinic in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Even though Canada has secured more vaccines per capita than any other nation, "it doesn't mean much" when the bulk is not yet being delivered, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto said. Photographer: Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg
Canada's Covid-19 vaccines shouldn't come at such an ugly price

An agonising wait has begun until deliveries can resume at the scale needed to fight the pandemic

CommentFebruary 03, 2021
UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen told the UN Security Council last week that it’s now time to ensure meetings by Sryia's representatives are better organised and more focused. AP
Syria needs a new constitution - even if those responsible won't deliver it

A committee of civil war factions is meeting in Geneva to chart a way forward for the country

CommentJanuary 28, 2021
Omar Alghabra, who was recently appointed Canada's transport minister, talks to supporters after he won the riding of Mississauga Centre as an MP on October 19, 2015. Toronto Star via Getty
Canada's new Syrian-origin minister outshines his racist critics

The new Syrian-Canadian cabinet minister is a symbol of openness, and some politicians don't like that

CommentJanuary 20, 2021
Police detain a protester as they enforce a night curfew imposed by the Quebec government to help slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Montreal, Quebec, Canada January 9, 2021. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
Canada is failing those who bear its greatest Covid-19 burdens

The antics of the country's elected officials are not helping

CommentJanuary 13, 2021
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