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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

Education

Young boys attend their class at school in eastern Mosul. (Reuters)

On education, Arab world has no time to waste

Education

Schoolchildren listen to their teacher at the Oudaya primary school in Rabat. (Reuters)

Despite progress, too many children remain out of school in MENA region

Women

Saudi woman talks on her phone during the “MiSK Global Forum” held under the slogan “Meeting the Challenge of Change” in Riyadh, last November. (AFP)

Women are key to economic growth in MENA region

Children

Blowing the pain away. A Syrian girl blows bubbles amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Daraa in southern Syria. (AFP)

Totally unacceptable statistics in the Middle East

Davos

Jordanian King Abdullah II meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi during the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, eastern Switzerland, on January 24. (Jordanian Royal Palace)

Arabs’ hopes and worries in Davos