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Iraq

Iraqi actors read their scripts to prepare for a scene of Òthe hotelÓ TV series, which is being filmed and broadcast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Baghdad, Iraq May 10, 2019. (Reuters)

Iraq's racy TV in Ramadan revives an industry and draws censure

Tunisian

Serious challenges. A Tunisian woman picks tomatoes in a field in Menzel Mhiri in Kairouan. (AFP)

Ahmini, an application to protect Tunisian women farm workers

Coptic Christians

Rising wave of conservatism. An Egyptian woman prays at the Archangels Greek Orthodox Church in Cairo. (AFP)

Coptic priest sparks controversy in Egypt by calling on Christian women to cover up

Qatayef

Special treat. A worker collecting hot Qatayef from a machine. (Roufan Nahhas)

Qatayef, an unbeatable Ramadan sweet

Ramadan

A month of giving. A volunteer carries food to charity tables in Cairo. (Reuters)

Ramadan charity helps change lives in Egypt

Hassan Abdel Zaher

Morocco

Moroccan women activists replace the name of a street in Rabat with that of a famous Moroccan woman, March 10. (AFP)

Morocco uses legal and executive arsenal to combat violence against women

MENA

(L-R) Broadcast Journalist May Bin Khadra, Vice-President of EMEA, PSB Rob Vance, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund Jihad Azour and President of ASDA’A BCW Sunil John. (Courtesy of Arab Youth Survey)

Arab youth survey reflects ‘need for new social contract’

Lebanon

A student takes part in a workshop at The Little Engineer centre in Beirut. (The Little Engineer)

Beirut-based technology initiative propping future generations

MENA

Visitors attend a panel at the Travel Tech Show at the Arabian Travel Market. (ATM)

Technology redefining MENA’s travel industry

N.P. Krishna Kumar-16163