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Children continue their school curriculum online via a computer screen at their home in Kuwait City on March 23, 2020. - Either on television as in Libya or on tablets in the IT-savvy Gulf monarchies, in the time of nouvel coronavirus millions of schoolchildren around the Arab world are now learning lessons at home. Governments across the region have shuttered schools forcing pupils to stay away in a bid to combat the virus, but at the risk of deepening an already worrying educational divide. Across the region, as elsewhere in the world, in many countries already afflicted by poverty and patchy internet access, teachers, parents and pupils have been left scrambling not to lose the rest of the school year. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)

Arab kids told 'turn on TV' for home lessons
Palestinians perform their Friday prayers in the almost deserted Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, after clerics took protective measures and ordered the mosques shut in a bid to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, on March 20, 2020. - Israel has 433 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with another 44 in the occupied Palestinian territories and tens of thousands in self-isolation. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Religion in the Mideast adapts to coronavirus
A waiter who is a foreign worker in Saudi Arabia, wearing a protective mask as a precaution against COVID-19 coronavirus disease, serves a Saudi family at a restaurant along Tahlia street in the centre of the Saudi capital Riyadh on March 15, 2020. (Photo by FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP)

Virus changes Gulf habits; Arabs treat panic with humor
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Ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov from the Mariinsky Ballet performs during a dress rehearsal of 'Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux' at the Saddlers Wells theatre in London, on October 15, 2008. --AFP
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