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Egypt

Egyptian football fans with a picture of star player Mohamed Salah before an Africa Cup of Nations Cup qualifying match in Alexandria, last November. (Reuters)

For Egypt, Africa Cup of Nations is more than just a sports event

Islam

Al-Azhar clerics browse books at Azbakya market in Cairo. (AP)

Weaponising extremist fatwas against Islam

Nader Aboul Foutouh-49979

books

A Moroccan woman places a flower during a vigil for the two Scandinavian hikers outside the Danish Embassy in Rabat, last December. (AFP)

Books can provide ammunition for terrorism

Jordan

An assortment of e-liquids sit next to two portable vaporisers. (Reuters)

Vaping addiction sweeping Jordanian youth

Arab world

Catching up. Iraqi women take part in an Iraqi government’s literacy programme for adults in Najaf. (AFP)

Arab Literacy Day puts spotlight on unmet challenge

Nesrine Romdhani

Jordan

Changing the rules. Jordanian influencer Anood Barqawi poses while taking a selfie. (Facebook)

The fashionable rise of Jordanian ‘influencers’

Human rights

Activist Hana Adwar speaks as she follows online news of the the assassination of Tara Fares in Baghdad. (AP)

The dangerous lives of Iraqi women activists

Sidi Bouzid

A citizen and soldiers carry a man who attempted to set himself ablaze in a suicide protest outside the local government office in Kasserine. (Reuters)

Looking at suicide as a protest form in Tunisia

women's rights

Tunisian women chant slogans and wave their national flags during a demonstration to mark Tunisia's Women's Day and to demand equal inheritance rights between men and women on August 13, 2018. (AFP)

MENA women at forefront of fight for equal rights in 2018