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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Dec 202024min
Will Azerbaijan's victory in Nagorno-Karabakh lead to lasting peace?
On December 10, Azerbaijan held a triumphant military parade in its capital, Baku. Two-and-a-half months after the start of a conflict over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region in the west of the cou...
18 Dec 202014min
Memories of Mosul three years after ISIS
It is three years since then Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi declared the gruelling battle against the most feared terror group in history was over. ISIS had been defeated. The conflict itself ...
10 Dec 202028min
How new tech is helping the UAE farm the deserts
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit - global trade ground to a halt. Around the world people were scrambling to buy essentials as supermarket shelves emptied. But the UAE, a country that relies on imports ...
1 Dec 202013min
