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Puerto Rico’s student Luis Miguel Roldan has a break as he works on his performance during a class at the Superior School of Circus Arts (ESAC) in Brussels, Sept. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

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Rubber masks depicting President-elect Joe Biden sit on a work table at the Ogawa Studios in Saitama, north of Tokyo, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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A man wearing a protective face mask against the spread of new coronavirus and a cardboard house on his head with text that reads in Spanish "Stay home," walks on the seafront in Montevideo, Uruguay, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

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Two men sit on the destroyed balcony of a building facing the site of last week's massive explosion in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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Wearing latex gloves to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, bride Elma Diyani, right, and groom Octavianus Kristianto exchange rings during their wedding ceremony at the local Religious Affairs Office in Pamulang, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, on June 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

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Jose Gregorio Machado takes a sip of rum while cleaning the underside of a bus in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. Machado cleans buses for $5 U.S. dollars per bus. He says that on a good day he gets to clean seven buses with the help of his cousin. "I make my living honestly," says Machado. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

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An anti-government protester takes a picture of his dog standing in front of a concrete wall that was installed by authorities to block a road leading to the parliament building during ongoing protests against the Lebanese government in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, June 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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wendy and lisa- everything but you

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Bringing the Middle East Back Home

The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas

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Yousra Sandabad, left, and her parents, Moustafa and Afifa, go out for some fresh air on their rooftop on the first day of Eid in lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic, in Casablanca, Morocco, May 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

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A photo of South River High School Class of 2020 senior Melina Cramer is displayed in the window of her home in Edgewater, Md., Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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This Jan. 12, 2020 photo, shows graffiti and Arabic that reads, "Kandaka," referring to a queen of the old Nubian civilization, backdropped by a mosque where several women were beaten and raped inside the compound during the June 3, 2019 paramilitary crackdown on a protest camp in Khartoum, Sudan. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

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Protesters deface the Hong Kong logo at the Legislative Council to protest against the extradition bill in Hong Kong, Monday, July 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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This Aug. 5, 2018 photo, shows a wedding boutique with a defaced advertisement of a model on a placard, in Sanaa, Yemen. Most wedding boutique advertisements showing women models are defaced in the capital city. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

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Drivers arrive at the drive-in movie theater where drivers must leave one space empty between them amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

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Projector operator Pavlos Lepeniotis, left, and his wife Christina Tsouta, place a poster for an upcoming film outside the Zephyros open-air cinema that specializes in films from past decades in the Petralona district in central Athens, May 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)