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Rohingya refugees stage a rally demanding repatriation at Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on June 19, 2022. AFP
Any scheme to help refugees return home needs their trust

Questions about a repatriation project for Rohingya living in exile reveals the need for transparency

EditorialApril 12, 2023
Founded in 2012, four years later Careem became the Middle East's first unicorn, a start-up with a valuation of at least $1 billion. Bloomberg
E&'s partnership with Careem is an Arab success story

The $400m deal is also a vote of confidence in the UAE’s business environment

OpinionApril 11, 2023
The assembly of the World Health Organisation in Geneva, May 2022. Reuters
World Health Day: the WHO has much to be proud of

Founded 75 years ago today, the organisation has achieved great things but must remain adaptable

EditorialApril 07, 2023
Israeli police detain a woman during a raid on the Al Aqsa compound in Jerusalem's Old City on April 5, 2023. Reuters
Al Aqsa violence did not emerge out of nowhere

Radical voices in Israel have been chipping away at the site’s delicate religious status quo for years

EditorialApril 06, 2023
A health worker at an isolation ward where victims of the Marburg virus were being treated in the Angolan town of Uige in April, 2005.
Marburg virus outbreak shows there is no room for complacency

Case numbers in Africa may be low but our interconnected world offers diseases a fast way to spread

EditorialApril 05, 2023
Donald Trump, pictured while he was US president in December 2020, is surrounded by military cadets as he watches an Army-Navy football game at West Point, New York. AP
Donald Trump deserves a fair trial

Many living in a polarised US may have made up their minds but everyone has the right to due process

EditorialApril 04, 2023
Protesters take part in a demonstration in the Sudanese capital Khartoum's twin city of Umdurman, on March 8. AFP
Sudan's people cannot afford any more missed opportunities

The signing of a political deal between military and civilian figures this week is key for stability

EditorialApril 03, 2023
Men in the in Turkish coastal province of Hatay play backgammon on the beach weeks after an earthquake struck the region. AFP
Getting people back to work in Turkey and Syria is vital

Unemployment can damage mental health and has the inimical effect of exacerbating other problems

EditorialMarch 31, 2023
More than 400,000 Emirati citizens have volunteered so far to give blood samples and DNA cheek swabs to scientists building a genetic map of the population. Getty
UAE's genome project will benefit the entire Arab world

The National Genome Strategy will help address under-representation of Arab data in international research

EditorialMarch 30, 2023
Police use water canon to disperse anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv on Monday. AP
Arab voices are absent from Israeli protests

Demonstrations largely miss the reality that Palestinians are living under occupation

EditorialMarch 29, 2023
Lebanese man Mohamed Al Arab shows the different times on his watch and mobile phone in Beirut after a controversial government decision to postpone Daylight Saving Time. Reuters
Why Lebanon's time-zone troubles are no laughing matter

Foreign allies and investors will fail to see the funny side to this latest misstep

EditorialMarch 28, 2023
Reuters
The onus on social media companies

The responsibility to ensure user data privacy does not lie solely on one platform

EditorialMarch 27, 2023
Australian water scarcity activist Mina Guli, centre, holds a banner with supporters after completing her 200th marathon outside UN headquarters, ahead an international water conference in New York this week. Guli ran 200 marathons in the span of a year to draw attention to the water crisis. AFP
No country is immune to the world's growing water crisis

Once deemed a problem for poorer nations, water scarcity is back on the international agenda

EditorialMarch 24, 2023
People out and about at Dubai's Souq Ramadan on Monday. This Ramadan is being held with none of the restrictions that overshadowed previous celebrations. AFP
Ramadan after Covid is a time to pause and reflect

Three years after the pandemic began, we are thankfully in a very different place

EditorialMarch 23, 2023
Last year's Most Noble Numbers auction in Dubai for special vehicle plates and mobile numbers raised more than Dh53 million ($14.4 million) to support the One Billion Meals campaign. Wam
UAE's One Billion Meals campaign is reshaping Ramadan charity

Endowment funds will generate financial returns to be spent on feeding the needy

EditorialMarch 22, 2023
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