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Morocco

Students attend an Arabic class at a school in Rabat. (AFP)

Introduction of dialect in school textbooks divides Moroccans

Egypt

Cairo University President Mohamed Othman Elkhosht. (Courtesy of Mohamed Othman Elkhosht)

Cairo University seeks to lead intellectual momentum to fight extremist discourse

UAE

Dr Maryam Matar, founder and chairwoman of the UAE Genetic Diseases Association. (Twitter)

Maryam Matar aims to be the first Arab woman to be awarded Nobel Prize in medicine

Egypt

Egyptian icon Mama Maggie, deemed the “Mother Teresa” of Egypt, serves a street child in Cairo. (Mama Maggie’s facebook page)

A British-Egyptian woman’s journey in the motherland

Syria

Lingering grievances. A parish priest sits on a bench in the St. Elias Syriac Orthodox church in the Syrian Christian village of Fairouzah. (AFP)

What is the future of Syria’s Christians after the war?

Iraq

Lingering concerns. A displaced family from Nineveh stands outside their shelter at the Virgin Mary Camp in Baghdad. (Oumayma Omar)

Iraqi Christian families not returning to Nineveh, more interested in migration

Egypt

Numbers up, costs up. Egyptian security stand guard outside one of the entrances of Tora prison in Cairo. (AP)

Egypt considering community service instead of jail terms

Tigres

Cheap and practical. A river taxi during a trial period in Baghdad. (Oumayma Omar)

Life flows back into Tigris waters with launch of river taxi

Health

A view of Shuaiba oil refinery is seen in Basra, southeast of Baghdad September 21, 2015. (Reuters)

Rising carbon dioxide levels poses added risk to the Middle East