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Algeria

Algeria supporters with the country's national flag celebrate after Algeria won the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) semi-final football match against Nigeria, on the Champs-Elysee avenue in Paris, July 14. (AFP)

Algerian football fans touch off national identity debate in France

Lebanon

A woman goes through clothes at the Emergency Room boutique in Mar Mikhael in Beirut. (Emergency Room)

Lebanese fashion designer with an eye on sustainable alternatives

tunisia

Foreign students attend class at the Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages in Tunis, Tunisia. (Khaoula ben Amara)

Tunisia’s Bourguiba school gears up for summer session

Stephen Quillen

Gulf

A vendor reads a newspaper as he sells melons and watermelons in a market in Riyadh. (Reuters)

Distribution of print newspapers halted in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Muslim pilgrims arrive at King Abdulaziz International Airport prior to the annual haj in the holy city of Mecca, July 7. (AFP)

Thousands of pilgrims start arriving in Saudi Arabia for haj

Jordan

Off the rails. Poster of the Netflix Arabic TV series “Jinn.” (Roufan Nahhas)

First Netflix Arab production stirs controversy in Jordan

Saudi Arabia

In the driver’s seat. A Saudi woman practises driving in Riyadh.(AFP)

Saudi women, a year after driving reform

Saudi Arabia

The secret to creativity. Saudi writer and film-maker Maram Taibah.(Courtesy of Maram Taibah)

Writer, film-maker telling the region’s untold stories

Morocco

Ditching mint. A mint seller shows the quality of mint to a customer.(Saad Guerraoui)

Contaminated mint tea puts Moroccans’ health at risk