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Lebanon

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

Iraqi

Twin woes. An Iraqi child peddler sells water bottles to people driving down a street in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. (AFP)

Poverty, resentment of corruption among engines of continuing protests in Iraq

Baghdad

Protesters’ haven. Tahrir Beach on the banks of the Tigris in Baghdad. (Oumayma Omar)

Tahrir Beach, a safe haven for protesters from Baghdad’s turmoil

Philip Juma

Philip Juma in his kitchen. (Courtesy of Philip Juma)

A savoury taste of Iraq at London’s Borough Market

Mashal Alkharashi

Saudi volunteers, with the Saudi Food Bank or Etaam, pack leftovers into boxes. (AFP)

Saudis resist ‘throwaway’ culture of food waste

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Egypt

An Egyptian man and his wife pose at their vegetable shop in Cairo. (Reuters)

Egypt’s Islamists butt heads over helping wives at home

Jordan

A Jordanian couple on their wedding day in Zarqa, east of Amman. (Reuters)

Jordan’s rising polygamy problem sparks controversy

Egypt

Children sit on the side of an alley in the village of Al-Nehaya, one of the country's poorest, in the province of Assiut in central Egypt. (AFP)

At 'The end,' poverty drags on at remote Egyptian village

film

Keeping the art alive. Ahmad Faysal, logistics manager of the Sudan Film Factory, at Khartoum, November 11. (AFP)

Sudan cinema flickers back to life after al-Bashir's ouster