The Middle East Framed - regional photography for December 5, 2020

We bring you the best images from the Middle East and North Africa

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  An Iraqi man displays a falcon for sale at the weekly bird and animal Al-Ghazil market in Baghdad, Iraq. EPA

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  Riot police stand guard in Tahrir Square during a demonstration calling for the government to resign, in Baghdad, Iraq. AP Photo

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  Palestinians pray during a demonstration against the expansion of settlements in the West Bank town of Salfit, near the Israeli settlement of Ariel. EPA

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  Senior conservator and restorer, Venizelos Gavrilakis, works to clean and restore a 16th-century Byzantine Christian icon at a Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul, Turkey. As Head Director of Leri Parakatathiki Conservation and Restoration Labs, Gavrilakis has been working as a conservator and restorer of paintings, cultural artefacts and artworks for more than 25 years, and relocated from Greece to Turkey eight years ago with the mission of preserving artefacts of cultural importance. Getty Images

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  Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen drives during the second practice session ahead of the Sakhir Formula One Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit in the city of Sakhir. AFP

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  Iraqi Christian children receive communion wafers during their First Communion ceremony at Mart Shmoni church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. AFP

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  Tunisian doctors and medical students demand the dismissal of the minister of health during a protest in front of the headquarters of the ministry after the death of a resident doctor who fell from a broken hospital elevator. AFP

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  French-Lebanese trumpet player Ibrahim Maalouf performs during the Beirut Chants Festival at Beirut Souks in Beirut, Lebanon. EPA

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  Families of the Beirut port explosion victims hold their pictures during a protest to demand a faster investigation into the causes of the explosion. At least 190 people were killed and more than 6,000 were injured on August 4, 2020, when a massive blast, believed to have been caused by an estimated 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse, devastated the port area of Beirut and several parts of the city. EPA

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  A Kuwaiti shows his stamped ID card after casting his vote at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Jahra City, Kuwait. Reuters

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  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a virtual speech to the Manama Dialogue conference on regional security held in the Bahraini capital. AFP

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