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Region in Focus - May 16

The best images from the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.

May 16, 2013

The best images from the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.

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Syria's lost generation

The war in Syria has changed so much. The loss of innocence, the phrase so often used to lament the effect of war on the young, has affected the whole country.

May 8, 2013

The war in Syria has changed so much. The loss of innocence, the phrase so often used to lament the effect of war on the young, has affected the whole country.

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Region In Focus - April 25

The best images of the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.

April 25, 2013

The best images of the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.

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Region In Focus - April 18

The best images of the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.

April 18, 2013

The best images of the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photos from Syria

Back in November of last year we began to notice the incredible coverage by photographers in Syria, specifically Aleppo.  We actually interviewed The Associated Press photographer Manu Brabo on his experiences covering the war and ran a collection of his images as a slideshow with the interview.

April 16, 2013

Back in November of last year we began to notice the incredible coverage by photographers in Syria, specifically Aleppo.  We actually interviewed The Associated Press photographer Manu Brabo on his experiences covering the war and ran a collection of his images as a slideshow with the interview.

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Region In Focus - March 28

The best images of the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.

March 28, 2013

The best images of the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.

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2012: Staff photos of the Year

Very early in the week I spent reviewing the 44,000 plus images shot by our staff photographers in 2012 I realised that the best presentation I could offer to you, the reader and viewer, was not to force these images in to pre-ordained categories or set arbitrary quotas on number of images from one photographer, place or event to another. Rather, I should simply offer the images that I believe you will connect with, that will give you an emotional response as they did me.

December 27, 2012

Very early in the week I spent reviewing the 44,000 plus images shot by our staff photographers in 2012 I realised that the best presentation I could offer to you, the reader and viewer, was not to force these images in to pre-ordained categories or set arbitrary quotas on number of images from one photographer, place or event to another. Rather, I should simply offer the images that I believe you will connect with, that will give you an emotional response as they did me.

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Time Frame: String Theory

Guitar hero, or confused combatant? One of the memorable images of the Arab Spring shows a man providing musical accompaniment to his fellow National Transitional Council fighters as they exchanged gunfire with Muammar Qaddafi loyalists in Sirte, the last stronghold of the soon-to-be deposed dictator.

December 16, 2012

Guitar hero, or confused combatant? One of the memorable images of the Arab Spring shows a man providing musical accompaniment to his fellow National Transitional Council fighters as they exchanged gunfire with Muammar Qaddafi loyalists in Sirte, the last stronghold of the soon-to-be deposed dictator.

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Region In Focus - October 11

The best images of the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.

October 11, 2012

The best images of the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.

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An Indian tale

Hardayal Municipal Public Library in Old Delhi, India, was opened by the British in 1862, when it was called the Institute Library. However, the Raj-era library now has an uncertain future.

October 7, 2012

Hardayal Municipal Public Library in Old Delhi, India, was opened by the British in 1862, when it was called the Institute Library. However, the Raj-era library now has an uncertain future.

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