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Senior Assistant registrar of marriages Victor Wabuyube (R) briefs groom Charles Otieno and bride Jackline Adhiambo (first row) before making their vows during their wedding in Nairobi on September 25,2020, attended by few relatives, and lasting for fifteen minutes only. (Getty)
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Africans Rethink Big, Bountiful Weddings as Pandemic Bites

The moment of truth for Ivan Arinaitwe came when he had to choose among many relatives and friends whom to invite to his wedding. An initial 150…

Majalla 14 March , 2021

The World In Photos

March, 2021
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Artist Aziz Al-Asmar and his colleagues paint a mural that comprises the Syrian opposition flag and the word "Revolution" in Arabic, to commemorate 10 years since the start of the Syrian civil war.Syria, Idlib,14 March 2021.(DPA)

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Syrian woman Samiha Seri, 63, posing with one of her 16 orphaned grandchildren in front of a picture bearing the images of three of her own children. Samiha is looking after her grandchildren after losing six of her own children during the Syrian civil war. Syria, Idlib, 7 March 2021.(DPA)

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Vendors wait at a market in Damascus, Syria, 14 March 2021. (EPA)

The World In Photos

A Syrian girld cleans a cooking pot in front of her tent at a refugee camp for internally displaced people in the town of Ma'arrat Misrin, Syria,12 March 2021.(DPA)

The World In Photos

People carry opposition flags during a demonstration, marking the 10th anniversary of the start of the Syrian conflict, in the opposition-held Idlib, Syria March 15, 2021. Picture taken with a drone.(Reuters)

The World In Photos

A man hits a drum during a demonstration marking the 10th anniversary of the start of the Syrian conflict, in the opposition-held Idlib, Syria March 15, 2021.(Reuters)

Abderrazaq Khatoun, rests with some of his 11 orphaned grandchildren, in an encampment in the village of Harbanoush, in the northern countryside of Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, on March 11, 2021.(Getty)
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Syrian Farmer Lost Wife and Sons to War; Grandchildren Are His Solace

Abdel Razzak al-Khatoun was a well-to-do farmer in Syria's rural Hama province. Ten years after the civil war began, he is penniless, homeless and…

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Majalla 12 March , 2021
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Oprah Winfrey: The US Media Mogul

Oprah Winfrey made headlines this week after her explosive interview with Prince Harry and Meghan that reverberated across the world and raised…

Majalla 12 March , 2021
The artist Randa Ismail at her exhibition “Those Days” in El Bab-Selim Gallery, Museum of Egyptian Modern Art, Opera House, Cairo, Egypt. March, 6, 2021. (By Salma Adham)
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When the Pandemic Becomes a Chance for Creating Art!

In Cairo Opera House in the heart of Cairo, the artist Randa Ismail held an exhibition that ran from 23 February to 6 March2021.She said that all of…

Salma Adham 12 March , 2021
A weaver sitting at a loom, working knot-by-knot to duplicate the pattern printed on the paper in front of him, in al-Kattan Factory in Cairo, Egypt. (Supplied)
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The Egyptian Factory Throwing Down the Gauntlet to Persian Carpet Makers

The walls of this factory in the northeastern part of the Egyptian capital bespeak history as well as art. Sitting inside the rooms encompassed…

Amr Emam 12 March , 2021
Syrian Kurdish farmers harvest olives in a field in the Baadinli area, in the rebel-held northern sector of Syria's Aleppo province, near the border with Turkey, on November 10, 2020. (Getty)
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Ankara is Stealing Syrian Crops

As the current economic crisis mounts in Turkey, Syrian lands in the northern east and west territories controlled by Ankara are making up for the…

Jiwan Soz 12 March , 2021
In this photograph provided by Vatican Media, Pope Francis meets with Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Al-Husayni Al-Sistani on March 06, 2021 in Najaf, Iraq. (Getty)
Culture & Social Affairs

The Pope, the Shia, and Iran

Many have reported and commented on the significance of Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq, mainly when Iran and the region is going through many shifts and…

Hanin Ghaddar 12 March , 2021
The Interreligious meeting in the Iraq city of Ur. (supplied)
Culture & Social Affairs

Pope’s Visit Offers New Perspective on Iraq

The recent historic visit by Pope Francis to Iraq has brought the name of Mesopotamia to top Arab and international headlines, but this time in the…

Madi Karayem 12 March , 2021
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