• Monkey handler Naseer Khan plays his flute to attract passers in Islamabad, Pakistan. AP Photo
    Monkey handler Naseer Khan plays his flute to attract passers in Islamabad, Pakistan. AP Photo
  • A fruit vendor waits for customers along a roadside in Islamabad, Pakistan. Faisal Mahmood / Reuters
    A fruit vendor waits for customers along a roadside in Islamabad, Pakistan. Faisal Mahmood / Reuters
  • Saudi football fans take a selfie before the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying football match between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia in Shah Alam . Manan Vatsyayana / AFP
    Saudi football fans take a selfie before the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying football match between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia in Shah Alam . Manan Vatsyayana / AFP
  • A sculpture by local artists, that reflects on the deaths of those who desperately attempt to get to Europe in shoddy boats organized by human traffickers, is displayed during a protest in the northwestern port city of Zuwarah, Libya. Mohamed Ben Khalifa / AP Photo
    A sculpture by local artists, that reflects on the deaths of those who desperately attempt to get to Europe in shoddy boats organized by human traffickers, is displayed during a protest in the northwestern port city of Zuwarah, Libya. Mohamed Ben Khalifa / AP Photo
  • A torn poster depicting pictures of the Lebanese members of parliament is pictured on barbed wire as policemen block a street leading to the parliament building where a session of "national dialogue" is taking place in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Aziz Taher / Reuters
    A torn poster depicting pictures of the Lebanese members of parliament is pictured on barbed wire as policemen block a street leading to the parliament building where a session of "national dialogue" is taking place in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Aziz Taher / Reuters
  • A young migrant boy tries on a Bahn security officer's cap after arriving on a train from Salzberg, before boarding a regional S-Bahn train, at the main station in Munich, Germany. Michael Dalder / Reuters
    A young migrant boy tries on a Bahn security officer's cap after arriving on a train from Salzberg, before boarding a regional S-Bahn train, at the main station in Munich, Germany. Michael Dalder / Reuters
  • Palestinian women cry during the funeral procession for Riham Dawabsheh, 27, in the West Bank village of Duma, near Nablus. Nasser Nasser / AP Photo
    Palestinian women cry during the funeral procession for Riham Dawabsheh, 27, in the West Bank village of Duma, near Nablus. Nasser Nasser / AP Photo
  • Relatives of Palestinian Riham Dawabsheh, 27, watch her funeral at Duma village near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. Abed Omar Qusini / Reuters
    Relatives of Palestinian Riham Dawabsheh, 27, watch her funeral at Duma village near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. Abed Omar Qusini / Reuters

Region in focus - September 9, 2015

James O’Hara

September 09, 2015

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A selection of the best images from around the Gulf and across the Middle East this past week.

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