• My Profile
  • Saved articles
  • Newsletters
  • Sign out
Sign in
  • Register
  • Sign in

News
UAE
Gulf
MENA
US
UK
Europe
Asia
Business
Aviation
Economy
Energy
Money
Property
Banking
Markets
Opinion
Comment
Editorial
Obituaries
Cartoon
Feedback
Future
Science
Space
Technology
Climate
Environment
Road to Net Zero
Health
Culture
Art & Design
Books
Film & TV
Music & On-stage
Pop Culture
Lifestyle
Travel
Fashion & Beauty
Food
Motoring
Luxury
Home & Garden
Wellbeing
Things to do
Sport
Football
Cricket
F1
Tennis
Combat Sports
Cycling
TN Magazine
Special reports
Weekend

Podcasts Newsletters Follow us App Video
TN MagazineSpecial reportsWeekend
News
UAE
Gulf
MENA
US
UK
Europe
Asia
Business
Aviation
Economy
Energy
Money
Property
Banking
Markets
Opinion
Comment
Editorial
Obituaries
Cartoon
Feedback
Future
Science
Space
Technology
Climate
Environment
Road to Net Zero
Health
Culture
Art & Design
Books
Film & TV
Music & On-stage
Pop Culture
Lifestyle
Travel
Fashion & Beauty
Food
Motoring
Luxury
Home & Garden
Wellbeing
Things to do
Sport
Football
Cricket
F1
Tennis
Combat Sports
Cycling
News
UAE
Gulf
MENA
US
UK
Europe
Asia
Business
Aviation
Economy
Energy
Money
Property
Banking
Markets
Opinion
Comment
Editorial
Obituaries
Cartoon
Feedback
Future
Science
Space
Technology
Climate
Environment
Road to Net Zero
Health
Culture
Art & Design
Books
Film & TV
Music & On-stage
Pop Culture
Lifestyle
Travel
Fashion & Beauty
Food
Motoring
Luxury
Home & Garden
Wellbeing
Things to do
Sport
Football
Cricket
F1
Tennis
Combat Sports
Cycling

H A Hellyer

H A Hellyer

Contributor
Dr HA Hellyer is non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.

Articles

Rishi Sunak is a candidate to succeed Boris Johnson. Momentous as it would be for the UK to get a non-white Prime Minister, persisting Islamophobia within the Conservative Party would undercut that win. AFP
Islamophobia is reducing a historic chapter in the Conservative Party

Polling shows more than half the members of the Conservative Party believe Islam to be a threat to “British values”

CommentJuly 27, 2022
A poster honouring 21-year-old murder victim Nayera Ashraf in Egypt. The poster has attracted controversy for depicting Ashraf with a veil, which she did not wear before her death. Kamal Tabikha/The National.
Nayera Ashraf was the victim of a misogynist extremism that is all too widespread

As a recent murder in Egypt shows the world remains unsafe for too many women

CommentJune 27, 2022
Louis IX of France disembarking at Carthage during the Eighth crusade, 1270. Getty
It should not have taken centuries to teach the Crusades fairly

More schools must adopt a critical approach to this pivotal and traumatic episode in the Middle East's history

CommentJune 07, 2022
A memorial for victims of a terrorist attack in Buffalo New York, US, on May 18, 2022. Reuters
Why does the myth of the 'Great Replacement' endure in the West?

A theory full of holes is inspiring the western world's growing white-supremacist terrorist threat

CommentMay 20, 2022
Stacey Abrams, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, during a 'One Georgia Tour' campaign event in Atlanta on March 14. Bloomberg
Even 'Star Trek' can't sell conservative America a black female president

A recent episode in the series has provoked ire in a divided US

CommentMarch 24, 2022
People take part in a vigil marking the fifth anniversary of a mosque shooting in Quebec City that left six people dead, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada January 29. Reuters
A common sense approach to debunk Islamophobia in the West

'Is there a problem with Islam' isn't a question anyone should be asking

CommentFebruary 09, 2022
The singer Amr Diab features in an ad for a car by Citroen. The ad has been viewed 8.4 million times in seven days and has now been withdrawn over complaints of it endorsing sexual harassment of women. AP
Amr Diab and the Citroen ad: stop normalising sexual harassment

'Boys will be boys' does not apply. Men need to grow up

CommentJanuary 03, 2022
Travel bans in response to the Omicron variant have mainly affected some of the world's poorest countries. Krunja Photography via Getty
Omicron exposes an interconnected, but unreliable, 'global village'

For all the talk of the world being 'in it together', we still seem to leave a lot of countries behind

CommentDecember 15, 2021
Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson is a well-known critic of the idea of 'structural racism'. Newspix via Getty Images
Jordan Peterson is part of a system he claims doesn't exist

The Canadian professor is an outspoken critic of the idea of 'structural racism'

CommentNovember 22, 2021
US Representative Republican Matt Gaetz, speaks to the crowd at a rally, on August 19, 2021 in Iowa. AP
Public platforms must not give space to conspiracy theories

In the US, Europe and elsewhere, bigoted views have too easily merged into the mainstream

CommentSeptember 29, 2021
The Middle East Centre, at St Antony's College, Oxford University. Noor Nanji / The National
The day that reshaped two decades of academia

Since 9/11, expertise on culture and religion has become permanently bound to national security studies

CommentSeptember 10, 2021
Refugees receive instructions from a US navy soldier as they disembark from a US air force aircraft after an evacuation flight from Kabul at the Rota naval base in southern Spain on Tuesday. AFP
All at-risk Afghans must be evacuated - not just those who helped Nato

Somehow the lives of those who served the western forces seem more valuable than the rest

CommentSeptember 02, 2021
Muslim women wearing hijabs visit the Montmartre hill in Paris. Fred Dufour / AFP
Hijab ruling: bigotry passing off as 'neutrality'?

There was no sacrosanct legal principle that was relied upon in this ruling

CommentAugust 01, 2021
General Mark Milley (R), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on June 23. AFP
Is the US army too 'woke'?

Why a US general is in a war with Republicans

CommentJune 29, 2021
Boris Johnson has apologised for Islamophobia within his party.
Islamophobia inquiries only work if people take them seriously

A report commissioned by the UK's ruling party found problems, only to ignore efforts to solve them

CommentJune 10, 2021
More Articles

IPSO regulated

News
UAE
Gulf
MENA
US
UK
Europe
Asia
Business
Aviation
Economy
Energy
Money
Property
Banking
Markets
Opinion
Comment
Editorial
Obituaries
Cartoon
Feedback
Future
Science
Space
Technology
Climate
Environment
Road to Net Zero
Health
Culture
Art & Design
Books
Film & TV
Music & On-stage
Pop Culture
Lifestyle
Travel
Fashion & Beauty
Food
Motoring
Luxury
Home & Garden
Wellbeing
Things to do
Sport
Football
Cricket
Olympics
F1
Tennis
Combat Sports
Cycling
Weekend
Living in the UAE
TN Magazine
Podcasts Newsletters Read E-Paper Print Subscriptions Video App
About UsContact UsWork With UsAdvertise With UsTerms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicySitemapArchiveRegistration FAQsRosalynn Carter Fellowship
IPSO regulated
Follow us
Get news alerts from
The National logo
You can manage notifications at any time by clicking the notifications icon.