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tunisia

Tunisian women work on the production of medical masks in a factory in the central city of Kairouan. (AFP)

Lockdowns do not come easy but Arab governments have few options

G20

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud attends G20 videoconference discussing the coronavirus pandemic, March 26. (AFP)

Saudi-led G20 summit marks global turning point in tackling pandemic fallout

tunisia

Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh speaks during a news conference in Carthage, last February. (AFP)

Tunisia’s leaders jostle for power amid coronavirus crisis

The Arab Weekly

Israeli policemen order people to leave the street and go back to their homes, near the Dome of the Rock mosque, in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, on March 27. (AFP)

Israeli-Palestinian paradoxes under the shadow of the virus

Palestine

Residents watch workers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus at the main road of the closed market of Shijaiyah neighbourhood in Gaza City, March 27. (AP)

Virus pandemic leaves Palestinians even more vulnerable

Marwan Kanafani

Algeria

A worker wearing a protective suit disinfects a globe-shaped public garden, following the outbreak of coronavirus disease in Algiers, March 23. (Reuters)

Virus pandemic highlights Algeria’s governance problem

Gulf

Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud (L) and Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak at the beginning of an OPEC+ meeting in Vienna, last December. (Reuters)

After oil price crash, Russia looks for OPEC deal

Mohammed Alkhereiji

Gulf

A school gate closed with a chain and lock in Dubai. (AFP)

Gulf countries struggle to adjust in trying times

war

A member of the Syrian “White Helmets” disinfects a tent in the Kafr Lusin camp for the displaced by the border with Turkey, in Syria’s province of Idlib, as part of efforts to prevent the spread of coronavirus, March 24. (AFP)

War prepared Syria to deal with epidemic outbreaks