The Middle East Framed - regional photography for December 30, 2020

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

A worker collects oranges harvested at a farm in El Nobaria, north-east of Cairo, Egypt. Reuters

Children attend a Christmas celebration event by Syriac Christians in the town of al-Qahtaniyah in Syria's north-eastern Hasakeh province near the Turkish border. AFP

An archaeologist excavates at a Roman archaeological site discovered during works to install a water drainage system, in downtown Amman, Jordan. Reuters

Police and protesters clash following a demonstration outside the entrance of the American University of Beirut, in the Lebanese capital's Bliss street. AFP

Iraqi workers inspect the products at a dairy factory in Basra, Iraq. Reuters

A man rides a horse-drawn cart along a road amid early morning mist in Cairo, Egypt. EPA

Nazik al-Ali, a 21-year-old Syrian Kurdish ballet dancer, performs a silent dance in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in Syria's north-eastern Hasakeh province. AFP

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