1 of 7 BBC News Online reader Ali Awartani captured these grinning Palestinian boys on a donkey making their way home near the West Bank town of Ramallah.
2 of 7 Ged McPhail sent in this picture of satellite dishes thronging the roofs of buildings in downtown Cairo, Egypt...
3 of 7 ... and also snapped these dresses put proudly on display by a shopkeeper in old Cairo.
4 of 7 Paula R Stern sent in a picture of a young Israeli child enjoying blueberry picking.
5 of 7 A sweetcorn seller pushes his cart as he waits for customers in Beirut, Lebanon in this image captured by John Wreford.
6 of 7 After a decade of bloodshed and a total lack of interesting public events, it's great to rediscover the pleasures of extreme sports, says D Youcef in Algeria
7 of 7 In contrast, Egypt's Red Sea looks perfectly calm in this image by reader Steve Cain.