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Palestinian teacher Jihad Abu Sharar leads an online class at home while schools are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, in the West Bank village of Dura near Hebron on March 17, 2020. - Either on television as in Libya or on tablets in the IT-savvy Gulf monarchies, in the time of nouvel coronavirus millions of schoolchildren around the Arab world are now learning lessons at home. Governments across the region have shuttered schools forcing pupils to stay away in a bid to combat the virus, but at the risk of deepening an already worrying educational divide. Across the region, as elsewhere in the world, in many countries already afflicted by poverty and patchy internet access, teachers, parents and pupils have been left scrambling not to lose the rest of the school year. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP) (Photo by HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images)