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Egypt

Hikers in Um Bogma. (Antoine Naggar)

Um Bugma’s mysterious charm on Sinai Trail

Marc Espanol-34622

Iraq

Damaged statues at the UNESCO-listed ancient city of Hatra, south of Mosul. (AFP)

Iraq’s archaeological sites face looting, urbanisation threats

Karen Dabrowska

UK

A sculpture shows Ashurbanipal hunting on hosrseback. (British Museum)

British Museum brings ancient Assyrian Empire to life

Karen Dabrowska

Lebanon

Curator Hala Younes (3rd-L) at the inauguration of the Lebanese pavilion. (La Biennale di Venezia)

Lebanon’s architectural landscape reinvented at Venice biennale

Israel

A general view of Jerusalem's old city shows the Dome of the Rock in the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, October 25, 2015. (Reuters)

How should we be teaching the Palestine-Israel conflict?

Mahmud el-Shafey

tunisia

Entrance to the archaeological site in Bulla Regia. (Wikipedia)

Tunisia’s Roman ruins of Bulla Regia majestically stand

Iraq

A religious student pages a book at the Howeish book market in the holy city of Najaf, 150 kilometres (95 miles) south of Baghdad, on August 16, 2018. (AFP)

Najaf: Iraq's city of bookshops

Morocco

The Grand Mosque in Place Outa El Hammam. (Saad Guerraoui)

Chefchaouen: Morocco’s blue pearl

chess

Studying chess from the Abbasid era to Kuwait’s al-Sabah Collection