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Lebanese Wissam al-Sheikh, 30, who recently lost his job as manager at a clothes store in downtown Beirut, smokes a water-pipe at a coffee shop in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Millions of youth in the Middle East region have had job prospects, plans for higher education and marriage upended by the pandemic. While such turmoil and uncertainty is universal in the wake of the coronavirus, the despair is particularly pronounced in Arab countries, where wave after wave of war, displacement and corruption has left this generation feeling bitter and hopeless. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)
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