In Pictures: Your Middle East

1 of 6 BBC News Online reader Laura Franklin took this picture of a friend enjoying traditional Syrian ice cream - vanilla rolled in pistachio nuts - in a Damascus souk.

2 of 6 Tourists are dwarfed by huge statues at the ancient site of Persepolis in Iran in Michael Neill's picture.

3 of 6 A market trader proudly shows his olive at a market in the Israeli port city of Ashdod in Alexey Sergiyenko's picture...

4 of 6 ... while in Egypt Karol Lesniak snapped an Alexandrian street trader smiling as he grilled husks of maize.

5 of 6 Ara Kantardjian spotted this traditionally dressed man outside a store selling modern fashions in Damascus, Syria.

6 of 6 In the United Arab Emirates, a livestock seller shows off his most prized possession - a mobile phone - in David Greco's image.