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mental health

A Sympaticus poster that shows mental health is always at hand. (Sympaticus)

MENA’s mental health start-ups navigate minefields

Khadija Hamouchi

Netherlands

Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Sigrid Kaag during an interview in Beirut. (Reuters)

Dutch minister advocates 'preventive' policies to address MENA unrest

MENA

Syrian refugees queue to register their names at a job centre at the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan. (AP)

The Middle East’s refugee burden

Environment

A farmer drives a tractor through smoke from burning rice straw in preparation for the next harvest, at a paddy field in the beginning of the agricultural road leading to Cairo November 1, 2014. (Reuters)

Green initiatives in MENA make a change but long road ahead

MENA

An Iraqi youth washes his hands in a stream of water in the village of Sayyed Dakhil. (AFP)

Water supplies under threat in MENA

MENA

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill, on April 11. (AP)

The danger of hate speech on social media

China

The Chinese Navy’s guided missile destroyer Chang Chun with the Byzantine-era monument of Hagia Sophia in the background is docked at Sarayburnu pier in Istanbul. (Reuters)

China muscles into a new Great Game in Red Sea

MENA

An Arab woman holds American flags in Flint, Michigan, last June. (AP)

How significant is rejection of MENA category from the 2020 US census?

Dunia El-Zobaidi

tunisia

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed with two women from Tunisian island of Djerba

Tunisia’s prime minister stresses need for 'political stability', pleads for patience