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Special Focus

Libya

A picture shows a business, damaged during the 14 months of fighting between the Government of National Accord (GNA) and the Libyan National Army (LNA), in a southern neighbourhood in the capital Tripoli. (AFP)

Libya small businesses struggle to rebuild despite violence

Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum

Visitors walk past a model of an unmanned aerial vehicle during the fifth day of Dubai Air Show, November 21. (Reuters)

Emirates airline propels growth with orders worth $24.8 billion

Alhurra

Easily offended. Members of Iran-backed Shia Popular Mobilisation Forces at a training centre in Karbala carry a placard with an image of Iraqi Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, August 30. (AFP)

Was suspension of Alhurra Iraq TV connected to US-Iran tensions?

Mamoon Alabbasi

Iraqi

Raucous messages. An Iraqi man looks at his computer in a garden on the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.(AFP)

In divided Iraq, ‘electronic armies’ threaten activists, media

Egypt

A fading style of journalism. Old newspapers on display at al-Azbakeya book market in Cairo. (AFP)

Egypt’s newspapers to shift from print to online

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tunisia

RightsCon venue in Tunis.

Meeting on digital human rights convenes in region for first time

Iran

Iranians surf the internet at a cafe in Tehran, Iran. A government push for a ‘halal’ internet in the country means more control after 2011 protests. (AP)

Iran ramps up information control tactics, misinformation

translation

Big ambitions. Founder and CEO of Tarjama Nour Al Hassan. (Courtesy of Nour Al Hassan)

Region’s largest translation company aims to build more ‘female economy’

Khadija Hamouchi

Morocco

A success story. A 2016 file picture shows Nawal El Moutawakel delivering a speech during an opening plenary session at the IOC Debriefing Olympic Games Rio in Tokyo. (Reuters)

El Moutawakel, torchbearer for Arab sportswomen

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