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Eid

Men buy sheep at a livestock market ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Tunis, Tunisia. (AFP)

Sacrificial rites of Eid al-Adha hindered by pandemic, purchasing power

UN

Volunteers wearing face masks due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic distribute food aid at the central market in Tunis. (AFP)

UN commission calls for inter-Arab solidarity in face of pandemic

Drama

Syrian actress Sulaf Fawakherji (Sulaf Fawakherji’s Instagram account)

Love kiss in ‘Chicago Street’ creates drama off-screen

Lebanon

A woman lights a candle at the site where a man killed himself in Beirut, Lebanon. (REUTERS)

Suicide spike in Lebanon amid socio-economic turmoil

Egpyt

Egypt’s street children face poverty, pandemic

Iraqi

Iraqis wearing protective masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, buy fresh produce from a street seller at a market in Karrada, in the capital Baghdad, on July 14, 2020. (AFP)

Pandemic helps Iraq with food self-sufficiency

Egypt

Basma Mostafa, a 30-year-old journalist who founded an initiative that sends freshly home cooked meals to quarantined coronavirus patients, right, and Fatma Youssef, a volunteer, left, package food into boxes, at an apartment, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP)

Egyptian volunteers make meals for pandemic patients

Religion

Members of the medical staff treat a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit in Houston, Texas. (AFP)

Less Muslim doctors drawn to US under Trump

Morocco

21-year-old Moroccan migrant Najib walks in the streets of Barcelona. (AFP)

Young Moroccans in Europe complain of discrimination