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Mohamad Ali Harisi

Mohamad Ali Harisi

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Mohamad Ali Harisi is The National's Foreign Editor, overseeing its worldwide output with a focus on the Middle East. Previously, he served as AFP’s news editor for the Gulf region and Yemen. He was also the Deputy Director. Before moving to the UAE, he was Libya’s Bureau chief, based in Tripoli, and Iraq’s Deputy Director, based in Baghdad. Since 2005, he has reported on major events across the Middle East and played a central role in leading newsrooms, coordinating coverage and directing writers and correspondents. Mohamad Ali has also conducted interviews with senior politicians in the region and beyond. He is fluent in English, French and Arabic.
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Gulf leaders and officials in Bahrain for the GCC summit. photo: X
Security and prosperity of Gulf states 'indivisible', says Bahrain's King Hamad

GCC leaders reiterate commitment to joint defence strategy at summit

MENADecember 03, 2025
The GCC summit is being held in Bahrain for the eighth time. Mohamad Ali Harisi / The National
AnalysisSecurity, diplomacy and innovation top agenda at GCC summit

Six Gulf allies, now a major collective force in regional policy and international diplomacy, are meeting at a time of rapid changes

MENADecember 03, 2025
Completing the regional air defence shield is a priority, according to GCC Secretary General Jasem Al Budaiwi. The National
GCC air defence system will be completed soon, says Al Budaiwi

Bahrain hosting 'extremely important' GCC summit on Wednesday

GulfDecember 02, 2025
Hezbollah fighters raise their group's flags and shout slogans as they attend a mass funeral of Hezbollah's chief of staff Haytham Tabtabai (Sayyed Abu Ali) in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, 24 November 2025. Tabtabai was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on 23 November 2025. Lebanon's Health Ministry said five people were killed and 28 others injured in the strike. EPA / WAEL HAMZEH
Hezbollah will not retaliate against Israel despite Iranian calls for 'revenge'

Assassination of top commander in Beirut marks Israel’s most severe blow in a year, but Hezbollah has few real options to retaliate

MENANovember 26, 2025
Dr Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to President Sheikh Mohamed, and Massad Boulos, senior adviser to the US President, at a joint press conference on Sudan, in Abu Dhabi. Chris Whiteoak / The National
US envoy calls on warring parties in Sudan to accept truce without conditions

Trump's senior adviser on Africa, Massad Boulos, in Abu Dhabi for talks

NewsNovember 25, 2025
Alexander Stubb during an interview with The National. Chris Whiteoak / The National
InterviewFinland's President talks trade, diplomacy and Trump

Finnish President is leading a business delegation in Abu Dhabi on a visit marking 50 years of relations

MENANovember 20, 2025
Customers at a jewellery shop in Dubai. The value of gold passing through the UAE last year was $186 billion. EPA
UAE reveals gold imports from Sudan in 2024 accounted for 1% of total trade

Combined value of gold passing through the country reached $186 billion that year, including $1.97 billion from Sudan's gold

MENANovember 19, 2025
Gen Rodolphe Haykal, centre, commands the Lebanese armed forces tasked with disarming Hezbollah. EPA
US scraps Lebanese army chief's trip to Washington

Rodolphe Haykal's visit scrapped after his forces denounce Israeli 'enemy' attacks on Lebanese territory

MENANovember 18, 2025
Iraq's legislators said they were asked to vote without seeing diplomatic nominees’ CVs. Photo: Office of the Parliament Speaker
Iraq’s diplomatic reboot threatens credibility crisis abroad

The 93 nominations for ambassadorships were intended to revive the country's global representation after years of paralysis - then the names were revealed ...

MENAOctober 16, 2025
UAE Minister of State for International Co-operation Reem Al Hashimy told The National the country stands ready to continue playing a proactive and constructive role in Gaza. AFP
UAE focused on accelerating Gaza aid delivery in coming days

Minister of State for International Co-operation tells The National ceasefire opens door for lasting peace

MENAOctober 14, 2025
Journalists work in a makeshift shelter in Rafah on the southern Gaza Strip on December 11, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Israel bombed southern Gaza's main city of Khan Yunis on December 11, after Hamas warned no Israeli hostages taken during the October 7 attack would leave the territory alive, unless its demands for prisoner releases were met. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
The longest two seconds in Gaza’s two years of war

For journalists covering any conflict, it feels like a sprint between reality and death

CommentOctober 12, 2025
Palestinians celebrate the announcement of a ceasefire in Khan Younis. The Israeli war, classified by a UN commission of inquiry as a genocide, has killed more than 67,000 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians. EPA
CommentThere is no victory, only relief, in this Gaza deal

A managed climb-down by Israel and a Hamas left in survival mode come amid a scale of loss that is beyond imagination

CommentOctober 09, 2025
US President Donald Trump says Israel must stop its bombing of Gaza after Hamas announced it would release the remaining hostages it took in October 2023. PA
Hamas agrees to parts of Trump Gaza plan, including hostage release

US President says Israel must 'immediately' stop bombing Gaza

USOctober 03, 2025
Left: Claire Magone of Doctors Without Borders. Right: Mourners carry bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike outside Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza city. MSF / AFP
InterviewMSF director: Gaza is what 'loud and clear genocide' looks like

Israel is normalising bombing hospitals and reversing 'burden of proof' with total impunity, Claire Magone tells The National

MENAOctober 03, 2025
Palestinians transport the body of a member of the Doctors Without Borders NGO, who was killed in Israeli strikes in Deir Al Balah. AFP
Dozens killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including a Doctors Without Borders medic

MSF has condemned the attack and urged immediate ceasefire and end to 'genocide'

NewsOctober 02, 2025
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