
Lebanese freshly baked bread emerges from an oven at a bakery in Beirut (Jamal Saidi/Courtesy Reuters)

Protesters gesture during a demonstration in Tahrir Square in Cairo on May 20, 2011. Hundreds of Egyptians took to the streets to re-energize demands for reform that they say have not yet been fulfilled and to protest the delay of the trial of former president Hosni Mubarak and his relatives (Mohamed Abd El-Ghany/Courtesy Reuters)

Egyptian women walk past a policeman in the newly renovated historical street of Elmoez Lideen Ella in Old Cairo (Asmaa Waguih/Courtesy Reuters)

Obama is seen on a television in the background of a barber shop near Ramallah (Mohamad Torokman/Courtesy Reuters)

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech in the Grand Hall of Cairo University in 2009 (Larry Downing/Courtesy Reuters)

Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi greets Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tripoli in 2009 (STR New/Courtesy Reuters)

Egyptian Muslims look towards army soldiers trying to break up clashes between Christians and Muslims in downtown Cairo (Amr Dalsh/Courtesy Reuters)
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