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Safa Hameed

Safa Hameed, Editor

Safa Hameed is a Senior at Centreville High and in her fourth year of Journalism. She is taking Journalism because she believes that it is important to learn and report on events that are underreported in the media in spite of their immense effect on society. During school breaks, she loves traveling and learning about all the different cultures, but when she can’t travel books are her go too. Outside of school, Safa tutors every week and is on the Board for the Fairfax Student Human Right Commission, working to promote discussions of diversity throughout out community. In the future, Safa wants to have no regrets and be content with all the decisions she’s made.

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Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China speak's at a United Nations Office at Geneva. 18 january 2017. UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré

China’s Common Prosperity Campaign

Safa Hameed December 2, 2021

This year, President Xi Jinping has implemented a massive crackdown and reshaping on all spheres of Chinese life--from the economy to culture--in what some have called a “rectification” program, but...

Photo By Charles Edward Miller via cemillerphotography.com used by permission under cc-by-sa-20 license.

First Person Sued by Texas Abortion Law

Safa Hameed October 14, 2021

On September 17, Dr. Alan Baird published an opinion-editorial on the Washington Post, where he openly talked about performing an abortion despite Texas’ new restrictive ban, resulting in him being the...

Refugees arriving to Dulles (Photo By: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)

Refugees From Afghanistan Arrive to Virginia

Safa Hameed September 17, 2021

During the last week of August, thousands of Afghan immigrants began arriving in Northern Virginia due to the mass evacuations that took place at the Kabul Airport--days after the Taliban took complete...

(Photo By: REUTERS/Leah Millis)

Senate Block January 6th Commission

Safa Hameed June 3, 2021

On Friday, May 28, a bill that would have created a bipartisan committee to investigate the January 6th riots, where insurrectionists stormed into the Capitol, was blocked in the Senate. The bill needed...

(Photo: "Gavin Newsom" by Gage Skidmore)

Governor Newsom Faces Recall

Safa Hameed May 7, 2021

On May 5, the Lt. Governor of California confirmed that the Recall Governor Gavin Newsom Movement had earned petition signatures to warrant a recall election in the latter half of the year. A recall...

Humanitarian Crisis in Ethiopia

Humanitarian Crisis in Ethiopia

Safa Hameed March 12, 2021

According to an internal government report obtained by The New York Times, Ethiopia has been partaking in ethnic cleansing in the Tigray region under the guise of the war that was started on November 4th,...

The leader of the Tatmadaw Gen. Min Aung Hlaing (Photo By: AP Photo/Aung Sine Oo)

Military Take Over Myanmar In A Coup

Safa Hameed March 3, 2021

On February 1st, the Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s elite military, carried out a coup that detained and disposed of the government leaders and officials, sending Myanmar into a state of emergency as the military...

(Photo by: Samuel Corum/Photographer: Samuel Corum/GETTY)

Rioters Storm Capitol Hill

Safa Hameed January 22, 2021

On the afternoon of January 6th, a mob of hundreds of Trump supporters began a protest at Capitol Hill, which quickly turned into a violent riot that led to the storming of House of Congress, and the immediate...

The Sympathizer: An Analysis and Review

The Sympathizer: An Analysis and Review

Safa Hameed December 16, 2020

The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, brings a new whole level of understanding of such a mutable event in historical fiction as well as a powerful and raw voice on the Asian American experience, encompassing...

(Photo By: Jeopardy!)

Jeopardy Host Alex Trebek Passes Away at 80

Safa Hameed November 18, 2020

On Sunday, November 8, It was announced that Alex Trebek, longtime host of Jeopardy!, had passed away after battling stage four pancreatic cancer since his announcement in 2019. Since then, his death...

Refugee Camp Fire and EU Migration Shortfalls

Refugee Camp Fire and EU Migration Shortfalls

Safa Hameed October 7, 2020

On Wednesday, September 9th, several fires broke out in the Moria Migrant Camp. It is the largest refugee in Europe, ravaging the refuge and displacing 12,000 migrants all amidst high tensions due to COVID-19,...

Review: Parasite

Review: Parasite

Safa Hameed March 9, 2020

Over the course of the past month, the South Korean movie Parasite has become the talk of the town, and rightfully so, after sweeping the award season and adding four Oscars, including Best Picture, to...

(Photo: Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Pete Buttigieg Wins Iowa Caucus

Safa Hameed February 12, 2020

On February 3, the first election contest of the primaries kicked off with the start of the Democratic Iowa Caucus, resulting in a major lead and win for Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg. The Iowa...

New Teacher Spotlight: Chris Evans

New Teacher Spotlight: Chris Evans

Safa Hameed December 11, 2019

Christopher Evans is one of the new freshman and sophomore English teachers here at Centreville High School, CVHS.  He grew up in Northwestern Florida, where he spent much of his high school career focusing...

Plague Infects Three In China

Plague Infects Three In China

Safa Hameed and Bianka Balcazar December 3, 2019

For several days this past November, 28 people from China were held in quarantine after three people contracted the plague, a deadly bacterial disease most commonly associated with the Black Death in medieval...

(Photo: Michele Spatari/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images)

Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa

Safa Hameed September 18, 2019

During the first week of September, riots broke out in Pretoria and Johannesburg, the capital of South Africa, amidst spikes in xenophobia, resulting in immigrant-owned businesses being looted and burned. Rioters...

Jakarta's air pollution is one of the worst in the region.

A New Capital And A Sinking One

Safa Hameed September 10, 2019

Air pollution, overpopulation, congestion, and sinking has caused the Indonesian government to start construction on a multi-billion dollar city in the uninhabited rain forests of the island of Borneo....

Hundreds Dead in Church Bombing

Hundreds Dead in Church Bombing

Safa Hameed April 25, 2019

It is safe to say that no one should ever fear going to a place of worship. Yet, these days, it seems as if for some people this is a luxury, not a given. This can be seen in recent attacks, such as the...

Centreville Mulch Sale

Centreville Mulch Sale

Safa Hameed March 20, 2019

The Centreville PTSA is opening up pre-orders for premium double shredded hardwood mulch from now until March 29th for mail-in orders and March 31st for online orders, with pickup from April 5th through...

(Photo By: AP)

President Maduro Blocks Aide to Venezuela

Safa Hameed March 12, 2019

As of February 8, the Venezuelan government under President Maduro has been blocking aide due to a standoff with political opposition leader and interim President Juan Guaido. Since January of 2019...

(Photo:  Evgeni Zotov)

Thousands of Muslims Detained in China

Safa Hameed September 25, 2018

As of now, the Uyghur Muslims, a Turkic ethnic group from the province of Xinjiang, China, are being detained by Chinese officials and being put into internment camps for the alleged purpose of “re-education”. The...

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