• A boy controls a ball as the sun sets over Shatt Al Arab waterway, Iraq. AP Photo
    A boy controls a ball as the sun sets over Shatt Al Arab waterway, Iraq. AP Photo
  • Palestinians pray in a mosque after it was reopened as coronavirus restrictions eased, in Gaza City. Reuters
    Palestinians pray in a mosque after it was reopened as coronavirus restrictions eased, in Gaza City. Reuters
  • A Palestinian man takes part in a rally to protest against the reduction of the food basket provided by the United Nations relief fund in the town of Khan Yunis in the Southern Gaza Strip. AFP
    A Palestinian man takes part in a rally to protest against the reduction of the food basket provided by the United Nations relief fund in the town of Khan Yunis in the Southern Gaza Strip. AFP
  • Palestinian women take part in a rally to protest against the reduction of the food basket provided by the United Nations relief fund in the town of Khan Yunis in the Southern Gaza Strip. AFP
    Palestinian women take part in a rally to protest against the reduction of the food basket provided by the United Nations relief fund in the town of Khan Yunis in the Southern Gaza Strip. AFP
  • Students attend a class at the beginning of the school year in Sanaa, Yemen. Reuters
    Students attend a class at the beginning of the school year in Sanaa, Yemen. Reuters
  • Students attend a class at the beginning of the school year in Sanaa, Yemen. Reuters
    Students attend a class at the beginning of the school year in Sanaa, Yemen. Reuters
  • A student attends the first day's class at El Safa school in the Giza suburb of Awsim, Egypt. Reuters
    A student attends the first day's class at El Safa school in the Giza suburb of Awsim, Egypt. Reuters
  • Engineer Saeed bin Hammoud Al-Maawali, Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, paying an inspection visit to the second part of the second phase of Al Sharqiyah Expressway project. Oman News Agency
    Engineer Saeed bin Hammoud Al-Maawali, Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, paying an inspection visit to the second part of the second phase of Al Sharqiyah Expressway project. Oman News Agency
  • Students attend the first day's class at El Safa school in the Giza suburb of Awsim, Egypt. Reuters
    Students attend the first day's class at El Safa school in the Giza suburb of Awsim, Egypt. Reuters
  • Cemetery workers dig the graves for Sunni Muslim Iraqis who were kidnapped and later found to be shot dead, in Farhatiya, Iraq. AFP
    Cemetery workers dig the graves for Sunni Muslim Iraqis who were kidnapped and later found to be shot dead, in Farhatiya, Iraq. AFP
  • US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani arrive to an agreement signing ceremony in the Bahraini capital Manama. AFP
    US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani arrive to an agreement signing ceremony in the Bahraini capital Manama. AFP

The Middle East Framed - regional photography for October 19, 2020

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