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Back to SearchHow 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 a…
5 years ago
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 t…
5 years, 1 month ago
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, Dona…
5 years, 1 month ago
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 c…
5 years, 1 month ago
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 m…
5 years, 1 month ago
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 ab…
5 years, 1 month ago
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 …
5 years, 2 months ago
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 d…
5 years, 2 months ago
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 break…
5 years, 2 months ago
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 o…
5 years, 3 months ago