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Morocco

In for a change. Former director of the Centre for Women’s Studies and Research in Islam Asma Lamrabet. (AFP)

Debate on equal inheritance heats up in Morocco

Jordan

For better or worse. A Jordanian couple greet their guests at their wedding party at a hotel in downtown Amman. (Reuters)

Jordan introduces free pre-marriage counselling to lower divorce rates

UAE

Spreading happiness. The signing of a cooperation protocol between Alif Yaa Saada, Egyptian NGO Arab Achievers and Egyptian training company Skyline. (Alif Yaa Saada)

Emirati initiative brings happiness expertise to Egypt

Iraq

A new approach to life. A patient at the theatre clinic expresses himself through acting and playing the oud. (Oumayma Omar)

Drama therapy used to help victims of trauma in Baghdad

Arab world

A box of Viagra, typically used to treat erectile dysfunction, on display at a pharmacy. (Reuters)

Twenty years on, Viagra sheds light on male attitudes in the Arab world

Stephen Quillen

contraceptive

Iraqi children sit in a three-wheel motorcycle near the town of Heet in Iraq’s Anbar province. (AFP)

Contraceptive prevalence on rise in MENA though at varying pace

Jordan

CCSM Director Father Rif’at Bader speaks at the first Islamic-Christian celebration of the Feast of the Annunciation in Amman. (Souran Khodanian)

Jordan’s Muslims and Christians unite to celebrate Virgin Mary

tunisia

Mehdi Ben Gharbia, the Tunisian minister in charge of the government’s relations with Constitutional institutions, Civic society and Human Rights, speaks to The Arab Weekly at his office in Tunis, on April 5. (The Arab Weekly)

Tunisia to become second African country to legally prohibit racial discrimination

Morocco

Mushrooming phenomenon. Fake Gucci purses on display at a shop in the Old Medina. (Saad Guerraoui)

Casablanca still an Eldorado of counterfeiting and piracy