Nirmeen Hazineh, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, at the Shatila camp for refugees in Beirut. Young people in the camps say they dream of leaving the struggling country where their families took refuge generations ago. AFP
Iraqi Sarah Nael inspects creations by Rafedin, a sewing project set up by Italians to help Iraqi refugee women in Jordan. AFP
People enjoy a free concert to celebrate the wedding of Jordan's Crown Prince at Amman International Stadium last month. AFP
Young men swim in the Shatt Al Arab waterway, formed at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in Iraq's southern city of Basra in May. AFP
Protesters attacking a local bank in Beirut, Lebanon, last week, amid anger over a deepening economic crisis and hardship in the country. NurPhoto
Members of Tunisian dance group Urban Dance perform during Carthage Choreographer Days in Tunis. EPA
A young man sells roast sweet potato from a cart outside the walls of old Cairo in the historic district of Gamaliya. AFP