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water scarcity

Secretary General of the Arab Countries Water Utilities Association Khaldon Khashman speaks at the opening of the Fifth Arab Water Week in the Dead Sea. (ACWUA)

Resilient water sectors needed in arid MENA region

smoking

Palestinian vendors sell cigarettes at a shop in Gaza City. (AFP)

The costly failure to cut smoking in the Arab world

Oussama Romdhani

Terrorism

Former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, co-leader of the US Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States. (AFP)

Foreign aid and fighting extremism

China

Chinese and Syrian businessmen set up their national flags during a meeting to discuss reconstruction projects in Syria. (Reuters)

China sees risks, profits in MENA

Alessandro Arduino

migrants

Tunisian doctors and residents demonstrate against new government regulations. (Reuters)

The Arab world’s new wave of migrants

Oussama Romdhani

Syria

Economic diplomacy. Chinese and Syrian businessmen shake hands behind their national flags during a meeting to discuss Syria’s reconstruction in Beijing, last May. (Reuters)

Syrian peace dividends for China in 2019

Alessandro Arduino

Middle East

Flawed societies. A girl from of an impoverished Iraqi family reportedly living on $5 a day at her home in the Iraqi city of Najaf. (AFP)

The Arab world braces for more uphill tasks in 2019

Gulf

Participants in a panel discussion on cinema content for the Arab world at the MENA Cinema Forum in Dubai. (MENA Cinema Forum)

Gulf, MENA region expect expansion of film industry

MENA

A professor in pharmaceutical sciences performs an in vitro test at a laboratory in the Lebanese American University (LAU) branch near Byblos. (AFP)

Reason why Arab minds search for greener pastures in the West