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tunisia

A Tunisian woman wearing a protective face mask walks through an alley in the souk of the Medina, on the first day of a general confinement imposed by the authorities in order to stem the spread of the novel cononavirus. (AFP)

My days of COVID-19 quarantine in Tunis

Egypt

A scene from the Grand Night ballet show aired on the Egyptian Ministry of Culture Youtube channel. (Ahmed Megahid)

Egypt cultural production goes online to circumvent virus constraints

Iraq

A protester outside a tent in Tahrir Square in Baghdad. (Oumayma Omar)

COVID-19 empties Iraq’s protest squares as government imposes lockdown, travel bans

Egypt

A closed theatre in central Cairo. (Hassan Abddel Zaher)

COVID-19 fears put Egypt’s cultural and social life on hold

Hassan Abdel Zaher

society

Lawmakers of the Egyptian Salafist Nour Party attend a special session of parliament to vote on new constitutional amendments, in the capital Cairo on April 16, 2019. (AFP)

Egyptian Salafists in uproar over bill restricting polygamy, underage marriages

Hassan Abdel Zaher

Lebanon

A Lebanese Red Cross ambulance leaves the emergency building of the government-run Rafik Hariri University Hospital, where most Lebanese coronavirus cases are treated, in Beirut, March 11. (AP)

Lebanon hospitals facing Coronavirus amid medical shortages

Lebanon

A worker disinfects bookshelves as part of a sterilisation campaign against the new coronavirus, at the library of the Evangelical School, in Loueizeh, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, March 2, 2020. (AP)

Coronavirus puts online learning in Lebanon to the test

society

Entrepreneur and former British diplomat Angela Solomon. (Courtesy of Angela Solomon)

Designing quality childcare business in MENA

Khadija Hamouchi

tunisia

A scene from the theatre workshop for children at the headquarters of L’Art Rue. (L’Art Rue)

Tunisian children find therapy in music