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UAE

A 2017 file picture shows people taking a picture with the world’s first operational police robot near the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. (AFP)

UAE sees future in artificial intelligence

Lebanon

A 2017 file picture shows a portrait of British radio personality Gavin Ford in the town of Beit Mery, east of Beirut. (AFP)

Remembering a British radio personality in Lebanon

Smartphones

A downfall and an asset. A 2015 file picture shows a police officer watching a CCTV footage of a bomb attack on a smartphone at the entrance of the Lula Institute in Sao Paulo. (Reuters)

Smartphones are double-edged sword for terrorists

Women

Sense of despair. A woman migrant and her child sit at the Tunisian port of Ben Guerdane, some 40km west of the Libyan border. (AFP)

Arab women take to the ‘death boats’ of illegal migration

Shirine al-Daydamouni

Arab

A power to affect. Kuwaiti make-up artist Sondos al-Qattan. (Instagram)

Arab social media influencers come of age

Khadija Hamouchi

Saudi Arabia

With a critical eye. Daily Saudi newspapers on display in Riyadh. (AFP)

Saudi editor criticises ‘dereliction’ of kingdom’s media

Iraq

Nisr al-Sahara gun shop in Baghdad. (Oumayma Omar)

Gun shops thrive in Baghdad further aggravating insecurity

Middle East

Syrian children wait to leave their refugee camp in the Lebanese city of Arsal, last July. (AFP)

Refugee crisis poses long-term threats to the Middle East

Morocco

The courtyard of Al Qarawiyyin Mosque in Fez. (AP)

New project for religious reform in Morocco focuses on Hadith

Idris al-Kanbouri