Society

A general view of the MBC building at Media City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 5, 2018. (AP)
MBC media group moves to Riyadh as Saudi Arabia seeks to ‘reinvent’ itself
Mohammed Alkhereiji
A Moroccan girl attends a Berber festival in the western desert town of Tan-Tan. (AFP)
Marriage of female minors in Morocco triggers pushback
Mohamed al-Alawi
Women perform the Chilean anti-rape song during a protest against gender violence in Istanbul, last December. (Reuters)
Turkish women’s rights activists concerned about proposed ‘amnesty for child abusers’
Thomas Seibert
A mother and her daughter on their way to school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP)
Saudi educational reform progressing but not without resistance
Zaki al-Soudeir
A researcher at the New York University Abu Dhabi. (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Abu Dhabi students discover diplomacy in the digital age
Caline Malek
Keeping pace with fast-changing landscape. Egyptian Grand Mufti Shawky Allam, head of the General Secretariat of Fatwa Authorities Worldwide. (Reuters)
The fight of Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta against extremism, Islamophobia
Nader Aboul Foutouh-49979
On the defensive. Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb speaks in Cairo. (Reuters)
Dispute at al-Azhar conference reflects deep divisions over Islamic renewal
Amr Emam
Social media use by youth is rising across the Middle East
AW staff
Women draped in the Lebanese national flag use their cell phones during a demonstration against tax increases and official corruption, in Zouk Mosbeh, north of Beirut. (AFP)
Alternative media online increasingly draws Lebanese youth audiences
Samar Kadi