Mena education during pandemic - in pictures

  • Pupils sit in a classroom on the first day back at school in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan region. Four in 10 children in the Middle East and North Africa did not have any access to remote learning at the height of the pandemic. All photos: AFP
    Pupils sit in a classroom on the first day back at school in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan region. Four in 10 children in the Middle East and North Africa did not have any access to remote learning at the height of the pandemic. All photos: AFP
  • A teacher helps a child on the first day of school in Syria's northwestern Idlib province. Unicef has said millions of Arab children continue to live in 'digital poverty'.
    A teacher helps a child on the first day of school in Syria's northwestern Idlib province. Unicef has said millions of Arab children continue to live in 'digital poverty'.
  • About 37 million were unable to learn remotely during lockdowns in 2020, mainly because of a lack of devices and internet connection, said a report by the World Bank and UN agencies Unicef and Unesco.
    About 37 million were unable to learn remotely during lockdowns in 2020, mainly because of a lack of devices and internet connection, said a report by the World Bank and UN agencies Unicef and Unesco.
  • The Mena region had one of the world’s highest proportions of children who could not take part in remote learning.
    The Mena region had one of the world’s highest proportions of children who could not take part in remote learning.
  • Girls walk to class on the first day of school in a camp for displaced Yazidi people in the Sharya area, about 15 kilometres from Dohuk, in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region.
    Girls walk to class on the first day of school in a camp for displaced Yazidi people in the Sharya area, about 15 kilometres from Dohuk, in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region.
  • Girls sit in class on the first day of school in the camp for displaced people in Sharya.
    Girls sit in class on the first day of school in the camp for displaced people in Sharya.
  • Children walk among the rubble as they attend the first day of school in a village in the countryside of Syria's northwestern Idlib province.
    Children walk among the rubble as they attend the first day of school in a village in the countryside of Syria's northwestern Idlib province.
  • Syrian schoolchildren wearing masks sit in a makeshift school set up by locals in the village of Ma'arin, in the rebel-controlled northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo province.
    Syrian schoolchildren wearing masks sit in a makeshift school set up by locals in the village of Ma'arin, in the rebel-controlled northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo province.
  • Children attend class in makeshift classrooms at a camp for the displaced by the village of Killi, near the border with Turkey, in Syria's northwestern Idlib province.
    Children attend class in makeshift classrooms at a camp for the displaced by the village of Killi, near the border with Turkey, in Syria's northwestern Idlib province.