• An Afghan man waits for customers, near a graveyard at a hilltop, as he sells dates in Kabul. Reuters
    An Afghan man waits for customers, near a graveyard at a hilltop, as he sells dates in Kabul. Reuters
  • A driver competes during a drift racing in the eastern Libyan port city of Benghazi. AFP
    A driver competes during a drift racing in the eastern Libyan port city of Benghazi. AFP
  • Young men sit along a wall in front of the citadel of Arbil, in the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region. AFP
    Young men sit along a wall in front of the citadel of Arbil, in the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region. AFP
  • A liquorice juice vendor serves a customer in front of the citadel of Arbil, in the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region. AFP
    A liquorice juice vendor serves a customer in front of the citadel of Arbil, in the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region. AFP
  • Anti-government protesters use slingshots to fire stones at security forces during clashes in Baghdad, Iraq. AP Photo
    Anti-government protesters use slingshots to fire stones at security forces during clashes in Baghdad, Iraq. AP Photo
  • A boy rides a bicycle past the mural-painted walls of a closed-down UN school in Gaza City, following a government decision to suspend schools due to fears of the spread of Covid-19 disease. AFP
    A boy rides a bicycle past the mural-painted walls of a closed-down UN school in Gaza City, following a government decision to suspend schools due to fears of the spread of Covid-19 disease. AFP
  • Migrants travel on a horse carriage near the Turkey's Pazarkule border crossing in Edirne, Turkey. Reuters
    Migrants travel on a horse carriage near the Turkey's Pazarkule border crossing in Edirne, Turkey. Reuters
  • Members of Palestinian Civil Defence work on a flooded street as boys cross in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
    Members of Palestinian Civil Defence work on a flooded street as boys cross in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
  • A US soldier stands by as Colonel Myles Caggins, official military spokesperson for international military intervention against Isis, speaks at a military base in Rumaylan in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province. AFP
    A US soldier stands by as Colonel Myles Caggins, official military spokesperson for international military intervention against Isis, speaks at a military base in Rumaylan in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province. AFP
  • Iman Ramezanpoudelavari from Iran loses his men's Welterweight bout with Maimaiti Aihemaiti from China at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic boxing qualifiers tournament in Amman, Jordan. EPA
    Iman Ramezanpoudelavari from Iran loses his men's Welterweight bout with Maimaiti Aihemaiti from China at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic boxing qualifiers tournament in Amman, Jordan. EPA
  • A hologram of legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum is projected on stage at Cairo Opera House, about 45 years after the performer's death. AFP
    A hologram of legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum is projected on stage at Cairo Opera House, about 45 years after the performer's death. AFP
  • Visitors view the step pyramid of Djoser in Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, south of the capital Cairo. AFP
    Visitors view the step pyramid of Djoser in Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, south of the capital Cairo. AFP
  • An Algerian protester in traditional Amazigh (Berber) attire flashes the sign of fictory in front of a cordon of anti-riot police during the weekly anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers. AFP
    An Algerian protester in traditional Amazigh (Berber) attire flashes the sign of fictory in front of a cordon of anti-riot police during the weekly anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers. AFP
  • Workers disinfect the ground around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. AP Photo
    Workers disinfect the ground around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. AP Photo
  • A man walks past a building where gunmen were hiding during an attack the day before, in Kabul, Afghanistan. EPA
    A man walks past a building where gunmen were hiding during an attack the day before, in Kabul, Afghanistan. EPA

The Middle East framed - regional photography for March 7, 2020

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

Simon Wilgress-Pipe
Simon Wilgress-Pipe

March 07, 2020

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