In Pictures: Your Middle East

1 of 7 A Bedouin girl in Petra, Jordan, shows a cheeky smile - and her bare feet - for the camera in BBC News Online reader Anita Ahmad's picture.

2 of 7 A cat creeps along a wall painted with a mural of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque in Annie Higgins' picture, taken in a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut.

3 of 7 Rural eastern Jordanian women are hard at work "dot-painting" ostrich eggs in Dominic Ellis' image.

4 of 7 Iran's breathtaking Shiraz mountains are shown in all their glory in Mark Campling's picture...

5 of 7 ... while in the south-west Wadi Rum desert, as dusk falls, Peter Danner snapped a young Bedouin showing his friend how to work a slingshot.

6 of 7 In Jaffa, Israel, Kevin Katske snapped two Israeli-Arab girls dancing.

7 of 7 Adrian Rowlinson sent in this image with the description, "British expats getting lost in the desert outside Dubai, United Arab Emirates!"