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Iraq gets new government amid fiscal, coronavirus crises | AFP

May 6, 2020May 24, 2020 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on May 6, 2020]

Baghdad (AFP) – Mustafa Kadhemi took office as Iraq’s premier early Thursday after breaking months of political deadlock, taking the reins amid a staggering economic crisis, a health pandemic and the spectre of renewed protests.

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Cousins-in-command seal family rule over Iraqi Kurdistan | AFP

June 11, 2019June 11, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on June 11, 2019]

Baghdad (AFP) – The succession of two powerful cousins to the top government posts in Iraqi Kurdistan has sealed the Barzani family’s “monarchic” rule over the autonomous region, analysts say.

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In Iraq, political wrangling spawns debate over US troops | AFP

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Co-written with AFP’s Salam Faraj; published here January 22, 2019]

Baghdad (AFP) – From the halls of parliament to the lightning-fast rumour mills of social media, pro-Iran factions are demanding US troops withdraw from Iraq in a challenge to the country’s fragile government.

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First-time voters eagerly weigh in on Lebanese election | AFP

May 8, 2018May 8, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on May 6, 2018]

Beirut (AFP) – Hanin Terjman was among the first outside her Beirut polling station Sunday: like many young Lebanese, she is voting for the first time and wants to see new faces in parliament.

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Election fever hits Lebanon, nine years since last legislative vote | AFP

April 18, 2018April 18, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on April 18, 2018]

As its first parliamentary vote in nearly a decade approaches, Lebanon has been swept into campaign fever: posters on every corner, televised debates, and neighbours bickering over new electoral procedures.

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Lebanon activists ramp up pressure on reviled rape law | AFP

April 22, 2017May 21, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on April 22, 2017]

Beirut (AFP) – Lebanese activists ramped up their campaign to scrap a controversial law allowing rapists who marry their victims to go free, with a dramatic installation on Saturday along Beirut’s sunny seaside.

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Dubai, being Dubai.
“Let the dead go first, then maybe one day the living can go.” Syrians sending the bodies of their loved ones across the border to their waiting relatives. Turkish authorities have allowed only the dead - not the living - to cross into Syria to be buried. Story in bio.
An Arabic workbook belonging to a Syrian child who was still trapped under the rubble. Attempted rescue operations just moments before a new body was pulled out. A Syrian man examines the body of his brother’s grandchild. Salah Al-Naasan, who lost his daughter-in-law and three grandchildren - including the one seen in the previous photo, the one pulled out of the rubble in the earlier video, and the unborn child of his pregnant, lifeless daughter-in-law. He is crying out to see if the unborn child can somehow be saved. On both sides of the border, Syrians suffer.
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