How the UAE moved an entire coral reef
At the beginning of 2020 the UAE faced a conundrum. Abu Dhabi Ports was seeking to boost its cargo-handling capacity, which meant more construction above and below water. A new project with Etihad Rai...
18 Helmi 202119min
How UAE’s Hope probe made history
On February 9, 2021, after seven months in space and six years since the mission's inception, a room full of Emirati engineers watched anxiously as their attempt to put a satellite into orbit around M...
10 Helmi 202114min
How the repeal of the “Muslim Ban” will affect Muslim refugees
During his 2015 presidential primary race, a day after the San Bernadino shootings in which a married Islamist couple shot and killed 14 people, Donald Trump said he wanted “a total and complete shutd...
4 Helmi 202114min
Can Lebanon survive the coronavirus pandemic?
In December 2019, two months after the start of the popular protests across Lebanon, Human Rights Watch warned of an impending health crisis in the country. The government was failing to fund publi...
28 Tammi 202115min
Biden inauguration - The unprecedented presidential handover
On 20 January, 2021, Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. President Biden has come into power breaking records and making history. He received more votes than any othe...
21 Tammi 202118min
Egypt’s #MeToo movement and how it is changing the country
In December 2011 in Cairo, during a protest in Tahrir Square, a woman was captured on video being dragged along the ground. During the attack, her abaya, the name for the long, loose cloak worn by wom...
17 Tammi 202121min
Will the promise of the Covid-19 vaccines help us return to normal in 2021?
2020 ended with some relief that we now have vaccines for Covid-19. But the pandemic is not over yet and new strains of coronavirus have spread. Now we have to work out how to distribute the vaccines ...
7 Tammi 202120min
Stories from 2020: the year of Covid-19 and beyond
As we look back on the year 2020 it is undeniable that there is one story that has defined the year. But beyond the coronavirus, what have been the defining stories from The National’s newsroom? Ir...
25 Joulu 202024min
