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Ahmed Maher

Senior Correspondent

Abu Dhabi

Ahmed Maher joined The National as a Senior Correspondent in 2020. Prior to this, he spent 12 years with the BBC in London as a roving Middle East bilingual correspondent. He reported extensively from Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen and Sudan. He was the BBC’s main correspondent in Iraq from 2015 to 2017, covering the war against ISIS.

PREVIOUS ARTICLES

Everyone is nervous: the potential fallout of Sudan’s unrest

By Ahmed Maher●

Saudi Arabian soldier’s remains returned from Iraq after 30 years

By Ahmed Maher●

How Sudan's tribes transformed their camel business to keep Gulf buyers

By Ahmed Maher●

Bomb attack on military bus in Damascus kills 14

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Leila Gharagozlou and Ahmed Maher●

Assad may never face justice as Interpol resumes co-operation with Syria

By Ahmed Maher●

Israeli Interior Minister: Israel to ‘manage conflict‘ with Palestinians not resolve it

By Ahmed Maher●

Sudan reforms should be under civilian authority, US says

By Ahmed Maher●

Sudan’s army withdraws protection for Al Bashir’s properties as tension simmers after coup

By Ahmed Maher●

Handing Omar Al Bashir to ICC has divided council, Sudan foreign minister says

By Ahmed Maher●

Sudan's failed coup a distraction from government's failings, activists say

By Ahmed Maher●

Sudan foils coup attempt by Al Bashir loyalists and arrests plotters

By Hamza Hendawi and Ahmed Maher●

How trading in burial plots became a lucrative business in Middle East

By Ahmed Maher, Sinan Mahmoud and Ali Mahmood●

‘No country in a crisis like Lebanon,’ says WHO’s Tedros in Beirut

By Ahmed Maher●

Afghanistan: Adjusting to life beneath the veil

By Ahmed Maher●

A chadari isn’t Afghan dress, say women enraged by Taliban restrictions

By Ahmed Maher●