• Birds fly overhead as a Kashmiri fisherman navigates Dal Lake at sunset in Srinagar. Tauseef Mustafa / AFP
    Birds fly overhead as a Kashmiri fisherman navigates Dal Lake at sunset in Srinagar. Tauseef Mustafa / AFP
  • An Egyptian woman walks in front of graffiti in the upscale neighbourhood of Zamalek in Cairo. Amir Nabil / AP Photo
    An Egyptian woman walks in front of graffiti in the upscale neighbourhood of Zamalek in Cairo. Amir Nabil / AP Photo
  • Dancers in traditional Iraqi clothing perform in Baghdad during a celebration of the Iraqi capital becoming this year's Arab Capital of Culture. Hadi Mizban / AP Photo
    Dancers in traditional Iraqi clothing perform in Baghdad during a celebration of the Iraqi capital becoming this year's Arab Capital of Culture. Hadi Mizban / AP Photo
  • An Afghan man walks past Bagram Prison just outside Kabul, Afghanistan. Massoud Hossaini / AFP
    An Afghan man walks past Bagram Prison just outside Kabul, Afghanistan. Massoud Hossaini / AFP
  • A donkey cart moves up the Siq in the ancient city of Petra, southern Jordan, the day US president Barack Obama visited. Carolyn Kaster / AP Photo
    A donkey cart moves up the Siq in the ancient city of Petra, southern Jordan, the day US president Barack Obama visited. Carolyn Kaster / AP Photo
  • Abbey Road? US secretary of state John Kerry, second right, walks across the tarmac of Baghdad International Airport with staff to board an aircraft out of the Iraqi capital. Jason Reed / AP Photo
    Abbey Road? US secretary of state John Kerry, second right, walks across the tarmac of Baghdad International Airport with staff to board an aircraft out of the Iraqi capital. Jason Reed / AP Photo
  • A portrait of former Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf, hangs on a wall ahead of his return to Pakistan
    A portrait of former Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf, hangs on a wall ahead of his return to Pakistan
  • Riot policemen throw tear gas canisters towards protesters opposed to the Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, as they throw stones at Muslim Brotherhood members near the Brotherhood's headquarters in Cairo. Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters
    Riot policemen throw tear gas canisters towards protesters opposed to the Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, as they throw stones at Muslim Brotherhood members near the Brotherhood's headquarters in Cairo. Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters
  • US president Barack Obama during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. Uriel Sinai / Getty Images
    US president Barack Obama during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. Uriel Sinai / Getty Images
  • An Egyptian protester waves a flag during clashes in the street that leads to the Cairo headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood. Khaled Desouki / AFP
    An Egyptian protester waves a flag during clashes in the street that leads to the Cairo headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood. Khaled Desouki / AFP

The best photography from around the region this week: March 28, 2013


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The best images of the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.

Photo edit and sequencing by photo editor, James O'Hara