• A Syrian girl gives flowers to US soldiers as their convoy makes a stop in the western countryside of the northeastern Syrian town of Al Malikiyah, during a patrol Kurdish towns near the border with Turkey. AFP
    A Syrian girl gives flowers to US soldiers as their convoy makes a stop in the western countryside of the northeastern Syrian town of Al Malikiyah, during a patrol Kurdish towns near the border with Turkey. AFP
  • Palestinian students attend their final classes before graduation following the reopening of the Palestine Technical University in Al Aroub, north of the West Bank city of Hebron. AFP
    Palestinian students attend their final classes before graduation following the reopening of the Palestine Technical University in Al Aroub, north of the West Bank city of Hebron. AFP
  • A Palestinian man walks past a graffiti of George Floyd painted on a section of Israel's separation barrier in the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. AFP
    A Palestinian man walks past a graffiti of George Floyd painted on a section of Israel's separation barrier in the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. AFP
  • Women make protective face mask at a textile factory in Sanaa, Yemen. EPA
    Women make protective face mask at a textile factory in Sanaa, Yemen. EPA
  • A Palestinian man rides his motorcycle past a mural painting of US President Donald Trump on Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. AFP
    A Palestinian man rides his motorcycle past a mural painting of US President Donald Trump on Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. AFP
  • An aerial view shows the northern part of Nicosia in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus with the Pentadaktylos mountain range in the background. AFP
    An aerial view shows the northern part of Nicosia in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus with the Pentadaktylos mountain range in the background. AFP
  • Farmers pick crops while wearing a protective masks in a field in Giza, Egypt. EPA
    Farmers pick crops while wearing a protective masks in a field in Giza, Egypt. EPA
  • Participants practice social distancing as they attend training about mobile journalism at the office of Press House-Palestine, a media institution in Gaza City. Reuters
    Participants practice social distancing as they attend training about mobile journalism at the office of Press House-Palestine, a media institution in Gaza City. Reuters

The Middle East Framed - regional photography for June 8, 2020


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Empire — neuromuscular disease myasthenia gravis; bipolar disorder; post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Rosewood and Transparent — heart issues

24: Legacy — PTSD;

Superstore and NCIS: New Orleans — wheelchair-bound

Taken and This Is Us — cancer

Trial & Error — cognitive disorder prosopagnosia (facial blindness and dyslexia)

Grey’s Anatomy — prosthetic leg

Scorpion — obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety

Switched at Birth — deafness

One Mississippi, Wentworth and Transparent — double mastectomy

Dragons — double amputee

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