Features

Decades ago, all of Iraq's 18 provinces had thriving female athletic scenes, with active clubs in different sports.
Iraq's Kurds pedal country’s top female athletes
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The Japanese side triumphed 2-0 on aggregate, after a goalless draw in Tehran, but for the reformist Etemad newspaper the clear winners were Iranian women.
Iranian women real winners at football final
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Damascus hopes the reopening of Nassib will boost its war-ravaged economy.
Jordanians dash into Syria for bargain shopping
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Iranians were not holding their breath for a quick solution to the country's economic woes.
US sanctions hit ordinary Iranians
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More than what’s on a plate. A Palestinian man makes falafel, a traditional dish consisting of fried chickpeas, on a street in Nablus
Israel’s appropriation of Palestinian food
Yousef Alhelou
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Artist Oumayma Badoud working on her engravings in the workshop
Moroccan artists take part in India's first Mezzotint Exhibition
Saad Guerraoui
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Around 500 million birds migrate through Israel and the Palestinian territories each year
Palestinian farmer scans West Bank skies for birds
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Yemeni children attend class in a house turned into a makeshift school in the southwestern city of Taiz
Yemeni teacher converts his home into school
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Iraqi female wrestlers practise at a gym in Diwaniyah
Women wrestlers overcome traditions in south Iraq
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When all four construction phases are complete in 2028, the airport will have six runways and two terminal buildings
New Istanbul airport could be world’s largest
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Even the Islamic State group's emergence and its ruthless campaign against Shiites, which it considers infidels, did not deter the pilgrims.
Sea of 2 million Iranian pilgrims surges towards Iraq
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Sinead O'Connor
Sinead O'Connor, from a priest to a Muslim
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The 36-year-old insists he was not a fighter, but a misguided civilian making orthopaedic shoes and prosthetics in IS territory.
German IS convert begs to go home from Syria
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A computer-generated model of the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai
Dubai’s new arts centre aims to be ‘innovative cultural hub’
N.P. Krishna Kumar
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Egypt destroyed many tunnels for smuggling under the border, exacerbating Gaza's isolation
Gazans eager to escape at Egypt border
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Visitors look at paintings at L’Atelier 21 gallery in Casablanca
Waves, Gnawa soul and trance blend in Najia Mehadji’s work
Saad Guerraoui
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