• A Libyan youth practises parkour on the site of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene founded in 630 BC as a colony of Thira (Santorini), on the outskirts of the town of Shehhat east of the coastal Libyan city of Benghazi. AFP
    A Libyan youth practises parkour on the site of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene founded in 630 BC as a colony of Thira (Santorini), on the outskirts of the town of Shehhat east of the coastal Libyan city of Benghazi. AFP
  • People stand at the library of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in Saudi Arabia's western Red Sea town of Thuwal. AFP
    People stand at the library of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in Saudi Arabia's western Red Sea town of Thuwal. AFP
  • An Algerian man reads a local a newspaper a day after Algerian presidential elections in Algiers, Algeria. EPA
    An Algerian man reads a local a newspaper a day after Algerian presidential elections in Algiers, Algeria. EPA
  • Syrian Kurdish opera singer Mizgin Taher performs in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria at a concert to support displaced people from Ras Al-Ain and Tal Abyad. AFP
    Syrian Kurdish opera singer Mizgin Taher performs in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria at a concert to support displaced people from Ras Al-Ain and Tal Abyad. AFP
  • Palestinian children walk past a mural on their way to their United Nations-run school in Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. AFP
    Palestinian children walk past a mural on their way to their United Nations-run school in Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. AFP
  • Women and children watch as kitesurfers take part in a tournament along the waterfront of the Libyan capital Tripoli. AFP
    Women and children watch as kitesurfers take part in a tournament along the waterfront of the Libyan capital Tripoli. AFP
  • A participant competes in the Erbil international cycling marathon in the eponymous northern Iraqi city and capital of the autonomous Kurdish region. AFP
    A participant competes in the Erbil international cycling marathon in the eponymous northern Iraqi city and capital of the autonomous Kurdish region. AFP
  • Lebanese men watch the speech of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on a television screen in a barber shop in Beirut, Lebanon. EPA
    Lebanese men watch the speech of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on a television screen in a barber shop in Beirut, Lebanon. EPA
  • A man looks on as he stands atop a balcony before the airport aquarium at a terminal at Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. AFP
    A man looks on as he stands atop a balcony before the airport aquarium at a terminal at Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. AFP

The Middle East Framed - regional photography for December 14, 2019

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December 14, 2019

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