• A glassblower sculpts a vessel at a workshop near the 15th century Sultan Qaitbay mosque complex in the "Desert of the Mamluks" (City of the Dead) area of Egypt's capital Cairo. AFP
    A glassblower sculpts a vessel at a workshop near the 15th century Sultan Qaitbay mosque complex in the "Desert of the Mamluks" (City of the Dead) area of Egypt's capital Cairo. AFP
  • A voter, mask-clad due to the pandemic, casts a ballot behind a privacy screen at a polling station at Al Baqaa camp for Palestinian refugees north of Jordan's capital. AFP
    A voter, mask-clad due to the pandemic, casts a ballot behind a privacy screen at a polling station at Al Baqaa camp for Palestinian refugees north of Jordan's capital. AFP
  • A Palestinian youth plays with a lion cub at his family house in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
    A Palestinian youth plays with a lion cub at his family house in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
  • Members of the Iraqi-Kurdish Peshmerga forces attend a handover and US military and logistic assistance distribution ceremony to the Peshmerga Ministry of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil. AFP
    Members of the Iraqi-Kurdish Peshmerga forces attend a handover and US military and logistic assistance distribution ceremony to the Peshmerga Ministry of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil. AFP
  • A Palestinian enters the Rimal Health centre affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) agency in Gaza City. The UNRWA said it needs to raise $70 million by the end of the month or it will not be able to pay the full salaries of thousands of employees through the end of the year. AFP
    A Palestinian enters the Rimal Health centre affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) agency in Gaza City. The UNRWA said it needs to raise $70 million by the end of the month or it will not be able to pay the full salaries of thousands of employees through the end of the year. AFP
  • A Syrian child plays at a makeshift camp of Syrians displaced by war at the UNESCO-listed site of Baqirha not far from the Turkish border, in a region of northwest Syria filled with abandoned Roman and Byzantine settlements. AFP
    A Syrian child plays at a makeshift camp of Syrians displaced by war at the UNESCO-listed site of Baqirha not far from the Turkish border, in a region of northwest Syria filled with abandoned Roman and Byzantine settlements. AFP

The Middle East Framed - regional photography for November 10, 2020


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