• Radical Islamist movement Ansar al-Shariah supporters clash with Tunisian police officers after Tunisia's Interior Ministry banned their annual conference. Nawfel / AP Photo
    Radical Islamist movement Ansar al-Shariah supporters clash with Tunisian police officers after Tunisia's Interior Ministry banned their annual conference. Nawfel / AP Photo
  • A woman prepares to buy bread from the window of a bakery in Cairo, Egypt. Shawn Baldwin / Bloomberg
    A woman prepares to buy bread from the window of a bakery in Cairo, Egypt. Shawn Baldwin / Bloomberg
  • Palestinian Hamas security forces stand guard at the border area in Rafah between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Said Khatib / AFP Photo
    Palestinian Hamas security forces stand guard at the border area in Rafah between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Said Khatib / AFP Photo
  • A Free Syrian Army fighter fires back at a Syrian Army position during clashes between the FSA and forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, in Deir al-Zor. Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
    A Free Syrian Army fighter fires back at a Syrian Army position during clashes between the FSA and forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, in Deir al-Zor. Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
  • An Egyptian fisherman fishes with a net in Lake Qarun south of Fayoum, Egypt. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo
    An Egyptian fisherman fishes with a net in Lake Qarun south of Fayoum, Egypt. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo
  • An Afghan child sells plastic pitchers in the old market of Herat city, Afghanistan. Aref Karimi / AFP Photo
    An Afghan child sells plastic pitchers in the old market of Herat city, Afghanistan. Aref Karimi / AFP Photo
  • Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of fellow fighter Hassan Faisal Shuker, 18, who was killed in a battle against Syrian rebels in the Syrian town of Qusair. AP Photo
    Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of fellow fighter Hassan Faisal Shuker, 18, who was killed in a battle against Syrian rebels in the Syrian town of Qusair. AP Photo
  • Afghan refugee Hassan Khan, 1, sits on a bed next to a prosthetic limb belonging to his grandfather, Hazrat Wali, 77, as he fixes his wooden cart in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
    Afghan refugee Hassan Khan, 1, sits on a bed next to a prosthetic limb belonging to his grandfather, Hazrat Wali, 77, as he fixes his wooden cart in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
  • Free Syrian Army members have a meal together in one of the streets of Deir el-Zor, Syria. Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
    Free Syrian Army members have a meal together in one of the streets of Deir el-Zor, Syria. Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
  • An Afghan boy jumps from a diving board into a swimming pool on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan. Anja Niedringhaus / AP Photo
    An Afghan boy jumps from a diving board into a swimming pool on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan. Anja Niedringhaus / AP Photo
  • A Pakistani youth runs after his horse along a field as the sun sets on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
    A Pakistani youth runs after his horse along a field as the sun sets on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
  • An elderly Pakistani man, who fled his home with his family from Pakistan's tribal areas, due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, sleeps on a bed covered with a mosquito net, on a roadside, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
    An elderly Pakistani man, who fled his home with his family from Pakistan's tribal areas, due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, sleeps on a bed covered with a mosquito net, on a roadside, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
  • A woman cooks over a wood-burning fire under a battery-run emergency light during a power outage in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan. Faisal Mahmood / Reuters
    A woman cooks over a wood-burning fire under a battery-run emergency light during a power outage in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan. Faisal Mahmood / Reuters
  • Afghan drug addict, Abdul Rahman ,44, exhales after smoking opium as his children watch him at his home in Laghman province, Afghanistan. Waseem Nikzad / AFP
    Afghan drug addict, Abdul Rahman ,44, exhales after smoking opium as his children watch him at his home in Laghman province, Afghanistan. Waseem Nikzad / AFP

The best photography from around the region this week: May 23, 2013

James O'Hara

May 23, 2013

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

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

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