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Sulaiman Hakemy

Sulaiman Hakemy

Opinion Editor
Sulaiman Hakemy is opinion editor at The National. Sulaiman previously worked as an industry reporter in Abu Dhabi, and as a freelance correspondent in Turkey, Western Europe and Canada, covering politics, refugees and terrorism for several outlets including the BBC, New York Times, the New Statesman and VICE.
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US President Donald Trump delivers a post-election speech at the White House early on November 4, 2020. AFP
What would Trump’s path to the Supreme Court look like?

The President’s legal case will rely on creating an atmosphere of chaos

The AmericasNovember 04, 2020
Sulaiman Hakemy
Each of the visions of Joe Biden, left, and Donald Trump, to their own respective camps, are worth fighting hard for. AP Photo
Why it's important to lose elections

If the US wants to be a winner like Trump has promised, Americans need to learn how to be losers

CommentOctober 07, 2020
Sulaiman Hakemy
An Afghanistan guard of honour officer stands next to the billboard of King Amanullah Khan, who led Afghanistan to independence. EPA
Does Afghanistan's Independence Day mean anything anymore?

Afghan governments have celebrated nationhood for over a century without fully grasping what it really means to be a nation

CommentAugust 18, 2020
Sulaiman Hakemy
FILE - This March 27, 2008 file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. A Senate committee abruptly canceled a confirmation hearing Thursday on retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata's nomination to a top Pentagon post after a furor over offensive remarks he made about Islam and other inflammatory comments. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
Why on Earth isn't everybody talking about aliens?

The last few months have seen some intriguing revelations about the US government's UFO programme, but few seem to have noticed

CommentAugust 05, 2020
Sulaiman Hakemy
Rohingya children participate in a DFID-funded education programme in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. UNHCR/Antoine Tardy
The fall of Britain's aid agency creates a more selfish world

London is merging its development department with its foreign ministry, and the results - for Britons and the developing world - will not be pretty

CommentJune 24, 2020
Sulaiman Hakemy
An Iranian guard tower along the Afghan border. AFP
A grisly crime leaves Iranian-Afghan ties shaken

Dozens of bodies have washed up near a river on the Afghan-Iranian frontier, and those responsible may never face justice

OpinionJune 15, 2020
Sulaiman Hakemy
In this picture taken on February 23, 2020, dead locusts are seen on the ground at a farm in Pipli Pahar village in Pakistan's central Punjab province. Pakistan's farmers are struggling to combat the worst locust plague in nearly three decades as insect swarms decimate entire harvests in the country's agricultural heartlands and send food prices soaring. - To go with Pakistan-agriculture-climate-weather-locusts, FOCUS by Kaneez Fatima / AFP / ARIF ALI / To go with Pakistan-agriculture-climate-weather-locusts, FOCUS by Kaneez Fatima
Locusts and coronavirus: when two plagues collide

As Covid-19 weakens supply chains throughout Africa and South-West Asia, desert locusts are threatening the food supply

OpinionMay 28, 2020
Sulaiman Hakemy
A man runs through a desert locust swarm in the bush near Enziu, Kitui County, some 200 kilometres east of the capital Nairobi, Kenya. EPA
Where did locusts come from and will we ever defeat them?

As billions of insects invade the Middle East and Africa, it is worth asking where they came from and if we can ever get rid of them for good

CommentApril 29, 2020
Sulaiman Hakemy
A New York University base camp at the Helheim glacier in Greenland. The US is looking to strengthen its strategic position in the Danish territory and use it as a foothold for a wider presence in the Arctic. AP
Who really deserves to rule the Arctic?

Washington's aid offer to Greenland should be prompting a little introspection among the territory's Danish rulers

OpinionApril 29, 2020
Sulaiman Hakemy
epa08309751 A Pakistani soldier stands guard at Pak-Afghan border after it remain closed due to coronavirus, in Chaman, Pakistan, 20 March 2020. Reports state the number of cases infected with coronavirus Covid-19 in Pakistan increased to 478. EPA/AKHTAR GULFAM
Facing an aid cut and coronavirus, Afghanistan has two presidents and no plan

The US is harshly punishing Kabul for its failure to unite, but responsibility lies squarely with Afghan politicians

CommentMarch 25, 2020
Sulaiman Hakemy
Members of IMF experts are seen leaving after meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab at the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon February 20, 2020. REUTERS
If Iran can call on the IMF, why can’t Hezbollah in Lebanon?

As both countries face economic crisis and a coronavirus emergency, Tehran is opting for pragmatism where Beirut will not

OpinionMarch 12, 2020
Sulaiman Hakemy
Rahmatullah, 10, poses in a classroom at Shahid Niamatullah Primary School in Panjwayi district, formerly occupied by ISAF and the Afghan National Police. Having lost his father to the war, he says he continues to hear the sounds of bullets at night.
'Afghan' is now a globalised identity, whether the Taliban likes it or not

Afghanistan is a very different country from the one its leaders – and their enemies – were born into

CommentMarch 06, 2020
Sulaiman Hakemy
Afghan voters braved difficult circumstances to vote in the country's elections. Paula Bronstein / Getty Images
Afghanistan's election results are finally released, but leadership remains overdue

Kabul's divisions are diminishing its negotiating position with the Taliban and endangering Afghan stability

CommentFebruary 19, 2020
Sulaiman Hakemy

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