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Seventeen of the 82 World Heritage sites in the Arab region are on a "danger" list due to conflict, Audrey Azoulay, the new head of UNESCO, has warned.
Dozens protested in the Lebanese capital on Sunday to demand amendment to the nationality law, which prohibits Lebanese women from passing on their citizenship to their children and foreign spouses.
French journalist Samuel Forey of the Figaro newspaper was praised by the jury of the Albert Londres prize, after surviving a deadly blast in Mosul that killed three others.
Society: Not only are Arab women taking charge of their destinies by delaying marriage or remaining single, they are fighting back against the system obsessed with labelling them as spinsters.
![West Mosul [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/media/images/E35F6E7A-A7B6-42A4-A369-6E9A1DD51829.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=uu8wSlkg "West Mosul [Getty]")
While schools and shops re-open in the east of Iraq's Mosul, the west side is still a scene of destruction, with 230,000 residents having nowhere to return to.
The largest wetlands in the Middle East are imperiled again, by government mismanagement and new upstream projects.
A new documentary called 'Gaza' is hitting the screens at the Sundance Film Festival this week, but one of its main stars won't be attending due to the Israeli-Egyptian blockade.
![Al Rasheed Street, Baghdad, late 1940s [Twitter]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/media/images/4C5AF6E0-FC2F-46DE-989C-75DD6325E89E.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=4YbvfCZX "Al Rasheed Street, Baghdad, late 1940s [Twitter]")
Once the cultural capital of the Middle East, photos from archives shared by a social media account showcases a bygone Baghdad.
The lullaby sung by young Mary to her son Jesus about the fate that awaits him brings to mind the mothers of Yemen, Syria and Palestine, who sing similar laments.
The wetland birds take refuge in Iraq's southern marshland, but are hunted by an increasingly desperate population, as well as those who like to show off at dinner parties.